http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/teacher_resources/teach_beaks.html
I would highly recommend that you contact the Field Museum in Chicago as they have a terrific Darwin exhibition and might be able to share ideas and videos with you. If any of you gets to Chicago, please make a point of checking this out. Simply seeing a showcase of the amazing variability of how the way beaks evolved relative to the environment of the island(s) they migrated to is fascinating. Above is an activity for 5th grades that certainly could be upgraded/adapted for college students. Joan Oakton Community College [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS They provide an excellent video on how a "theory of evolution" isn't just an educated guess but supported by tons of empirical data. > > > DeVolder Carol L wrote: >> >> Dear Colleagues, >> Our biology department is planning a "Darwin Festival" for the >> 2008-2009 academic year, and I have been asked if I'd like to >> participate. At this point, the plans are merely in the brain storm >> phase, and I've been told that my part could range from something as >> formal as a lecture to something as informal as standing on my head >> reading the/ Origin of Species/. >> > That would make it /Sieceps fo Nigiro/, no? (which is a little like > /Flowers for Algernon/, but different). :-) > > How about figuring out a game in which some item (a spoken sentence?) in > privately "inherited" with "variation" (badly whispered?) from one > generation (row of participants?) to another, and see what comes out the > other side pf the process? Of course, you'll need some basis for > "selection" as well from one generation to the next. Perhaps only allow > the women (and then in a later version, only the men) to repeat the > sentence they (thought they) heard to the next "generation." Will the > variations produced by men differ notably from those produced by the > women? > > Just an idea for you to play with. > > Regards, > -- > > Christopher D. Green > Department of Psychology > York University > Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 > Canada > > > > 416-736-5115 ex. 66164 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ > ====================================== > > > > > > > > > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription go to: > http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english > --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
