Goal
Students will research and present different examples of co-adaptation
Estimated Time
45 minutesSetting Required
Indoor ClassroomStandards
- S4L2. Students will identify factors that affect the survival or extinction of organisms such as adaptation, variation of behaviors (hibernation), and external features (camouflage and protection).
- a. Identify external features of organisms that allow them to survive or reproduce better than organisms that do not have these features (for example: camouflage, use of hibernation, protection, etc.).
- b. Identify factors that may have led to the extinction of some organisms.
Materials
- Journals or 8.5×11 copy paper (1 per student)
- Coloring supplies for each student
Procedures
- Allow students to research co-adaptations in small groups.
- Examples of topics could include:
- Interrelationship of figs and wasps
- Interrelationship of long leaf pines, wiregrass, gopher tortoises, and fire
- Interrelationship of monarch butterflies, milkweed plants, and bluejays
- Interrelationship of honeybees and the particular flowers they pollinate
- Migration of monarch butterflies
- Migration of whooping cranes
- Examples of topics could include:
- Provide time for students to develop a presentation to share with the class about how the species they researched co-evolved.