In this lesson, students use the fossil record to understand the topics of speciation, punctuated equilibrium, and gradualism. Students arrange fictitious animals' fossils by age based on appearance to create a fossil record.

Concepts

speciation

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Additional Tags

age of fossils, characteristics of fossils, evolutionary tree, gradualism, punctuated equilibrium, relative age, fossil record

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)