Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Examine how the fossil record helps us understand evolutionary relationships.
- Understand what a cladogram is and how it shows evolutionary relationships.
Activities
- Explore online the evolution of flight in birds through the fossil record.
- Create a cladogram using modern animals.
Investigation - exploring, analysing secondary sources, pattern seeking
Use the principles of biscuit evolution to animal and plant evolution.
Vocabulary
Evolution, natural selection, adapted/adaptation, characteristics, vary/variation, cladogram, fossils