7th grade links to games on Natural Selection & Evolution....
Record your answers to the questions below each link on a piece of binder paper.
Natural Selection Game .... http://www.nysci.org/charlieandkiwi_finches/
1. What were the variations in the birds during the Natural Selection game?
2. What environmental factor caused the small seeds to disapppear?
3. What will happen if the finch cannot find anything to eat with its beak shape?
4. What might happen to a finch that had a mutation that made its beak a different shape from that of the parent birds?
5. Why did the ground finches with the big beaks survive?
Darwin's Evolution game .... http://science.discovery.com/interactives/literacy/darwin/darwin.html
6. Make a thinking map to record the variations of the traits you could see in the "Things".
7. After playing the game four times, take the quiz - what is your thing's scientific name?
Finished early? Here is a game about natural selection in fish! ....the single guppy