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Students explore the evolution of life. They read sections of their text and make a foldable of the key vocabulary terms. They identify two types of butterflies and represent their similarities and differences on a Venn diagram. They create a Power Point presentation of Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection.

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evolution, the theory of evolution, butterflies

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6th - 8th
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Science
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