Darwin on extinction

Learn about Darwin’s beliefs about extinction and evolution. Show what you understand by writing a Fibonacci poem.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To find out about what Darwin thought about extinction.
• To write a Fibonacci poem about extinction.

Children will:

• Explain what Darwin thought about extinction.
• Predict the discovery of some 'missing links'.
• Apply some of the research they have done in a creative writing format.

• Darwin on extinction presentation
• Missing link predictor game
• Missing link presentation
• Fibonacci poem support

You do not need any particular resources for this session.

Information from the Natural History Museum about Archaeopteryx from nhm.ac.uk
The evolution of birds from berkeley.edu
Information on Darwin and human evolution from darwin200.christs.cam.ac.uk
Information about the walking whale Ambulocetus from the American Museum of Natural History from amnh.org
Information about the evolution of whales from talkorigins.org
Information about the walking fist Tiktaalik from tiktaalik.uchicago.edu
Example of Fibonacci poems from poetryfoundation.org
Plant extinction game from charlesdarwintrust.org (please enable Flash in your browser)
Pobble An on-line writing website which showcases over 100,000 pieces of writing, including examples based on Hamilton plans