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Evolution by Natural Selection ActivityEvolution by Natural Selection Activity
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Evolution by Natural Selection

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A diagram, data table, and reading passage top this resource. Through it, biology beginners are introduced to the concept of natural selection. They answer some questions and then participate in a simulation using fabric as a habitat and different-colored craft pom poms as animals. Acting as hunters and capturing pom poms, they find that the camouflauged animals survive and reproduce. A data table, graph, and critical thinking questions solidify learning. 

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survival of the fittest, charles darwin, survival, evolution, the theory of evolution, adaptations, camouflage, natural selection, population

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adaptation, camouflage, evolution, natural selection, population, survival of the fittest, science
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6th - 9th
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Science
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