Evolution

23/2/09 - Practicals for year 13 Human Evolution. (Presented at the BioEd09 Conference in Christchurch last week, from Jo Fissenden) [|BioEd 2009 A Practical Approach to teaching Human Evolution.doc] [|humanevolessseq.doc] [|HOMINID CRANIUM.doc] [|LENGTHY RELATIONSHIPS.doc]

Taboo game for Year 12 Evolution - [|genetics taboo cards.doc] (Aileen Jan) How to play: Students organized into groups of 3-4. Deal cards out evenly. The students have to try to define the capital and underlined word at the top of the card, WITHOUT saying the "taboo" words underneath. The rest of the group try to guess which term is being described/defined. Go around the group until all cards have been defined. [Extension - students then must define the underlined/capital word using all of the three taboo words]

Silent Sort Activity: Types of Natural selection - [|selection silent sort activity.doc] (Aileen Jan) How to use: Print out on cards (or laminate them), cut the cards out. Students organized in groups of 3-4. Each group receive a set of cards. They have to silently sort the cards into three categories - normalising, directional, and disruptive selection (but let the students figure out the categories).

[|Some notes on Ardipithecus spp] (Mike Stone) [|Evidence for evolution] (Mike Stone) [|Florence] (Mike Stone) [|Selection for human weight] (Mike Stone) [|Toumai] (Mike Stone) University of Waikato evolution pages are [|here.]