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Description This lesson is built around the poem by John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887): "The Blind Men and the Elephant". Through small group activity and class discussions, the limiting influence of incomplete ... Type Lesson plan Education Level 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Subject More Details View Complete Description -
Description Amino acid sequences in cytochrome-c are compared for several different animals, and the number of differences found are used to infer degrees of relationship. These data are also compared with a ... Type Lesson plan Education Level 9, 10, 11, 12, Community College Subject More Details View Complete Description -
Description Paleontologists occasionally find ancient tracks...footprints...preserved in the rocks. This lesson opens the door to analysing footprints, and gleaning information about body size and activities ... Type Lesson plan Education Level 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Community College Subject More Details View Complete Description -
Description Students are guided through a process in which three questions are addressed by retrieving beta hemoglobin sequences from online databases, and using online tools to compare those sequences in ... Type Lesson plan Education Level 9, 12, Community College Subject More Details View Complete Description -
Description Students describe, measure and compare cranial casts from contemporary apes (gorillas and chimpanzees, typically), modern humans and fossil "hominids" (erect and bipedal forms evolutionarily ... Type Lesson plan Education Level 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Community College Subject More Details View Complete Description -
Description Students are taken on an imaginary fossil hunt. Following a script read by the teacher, students "find" (remove from envelope) paper "fossils" of some unknown creature, only a few at a time. Each ... Type Lesson plan Education Level 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Community College Subject More Details View Complete Description -
Description The 3.6 million year old tracks of early hominids in Laetoli provide a tantalizing opportunity to explore how scientists use patterns of the present to understand the past. What do those ... Type Lesson plan Education Level 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Community College Subject More Details View Complete Description -
Description Students are exposed to a compelling idea: the Earth really IS flat! They are challenged to provide the evidence for a spherical earth, then present the evidence (experiences) for a flat earth, ... Type Lesson plan Education Level 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Community College Subject More Details View Complete Description -
Description Students mix a carbohydrate solution with a protein solution, adjust the pH, and view coacervates: amoeba-like objects, which change shape, flow, merge, divide, form "vacuoles", release "vacuole ... Type Lesson plan Education Level 9, 10, 11, 12, Community College Subject More Details View Complete Description -
Description The banding patterns seen on stained chromosomes from humans and chimpanzees are compared in detail, showing striking similarities. Possible evolutionary relationships are explored, as are the ... Type Lesson plan Education Level 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Community College Subject More Details View Complete Description -
Description Students prepare the components for building a Colossal Classroom Cladogram of vertebrate evolution, then put it together, showing the gradual, mosaic accumulation of the traits which we, as ... Type Lesson plan Education Level 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Community College Subject More Details View Complete Description -
Description Students working in teams classify furniture, share their categories and rationales, then note how their different schemes vary, perfectly logical and useful, but completely arbitrary. They then ... Type Lesson plan Education Level 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Community College Subject More Details View Complete Description
