Topic: Natural selection: how trait variations affect survival and reproduction (MS-LS4-4). Adjust the settings, then copy the prompt.
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Prerequisite skills to check: describing how traits are inherited and how variation comes from sexual reproduction (MS-LS3-2); explaining how organisms depend on resources in their environment (MS-LS2-1); reading data tables and bar graphs.
Warm-up idea: Scatter paper dots of three colors on a patterned fabric and give students 20 seconds to "hunt" them with tweezers. Count which colors survived and ask what the next generation of dots would look like.
Exit ticket idea: Students read a short data table about a population across several generations (for example, beak size before and after a drought), state which trait became more common, and write a claim-evidence-reasoning paragraph that explains it using variation, survival and reproduction.
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