Overview
- A new trait might grant individual(s) a competitive advantage for survival and/or reproduction in an environment (an adaptation), or a competitive disadvantage, or neither.
- Advantageous traits tend to accumulate in populations over many generations yielding a population progressively better adapted to survive and reproduce in that environment over time.
Underlying Pages
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0. Student Directions -
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1. How Do Species Emerge? -
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2. Introduction to Galapagos Finches -
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3. Intro to CODAP -
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4. What Causes Change in Finches? -
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5. More Finch Data -
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6. How Can Speciation Occur? -
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Standards
Next Generation Science Standards
- Life Science
- NGSS Crosscutting Concept
- NGSS Practice
Computational Thinking in STEM
- Data Practices
- Modeling and Simulation Practices
- Computational Problem Solving Practices
- Systems Thinking Practices
Acknowledgement
CODAP is developed and built by The Concord Consortium at https://codap.concord.org/
This lesson is based on the lesson Evolution in Action: The Galápagos Finches Authored by Paul Strode for Howard Hughes Medical Institute based on data collected by Peter and Rosemary Grant, Princeton University.
This work is supported by the National Science Foundation (grants CNS-1138461, CNS-1441041 and DRL-1020101) and the Spencer Foundation (grant 201600069). Any opinions, findings, conclusions, and/or recommendations are those of the investigators and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding organizations.