Rett Weber, Wendy Johnson & Amy Lark
Students are presented with a hypothetical scenario in which they use the mechanism of artificial selection to evolve an organism with a particular trait.
Key concepts
- Selection
- Adaptation
- Experimental evolution
Recommended use
Use this lesson when you want students to connect selective pressures to intentional trait choice in a concrete scenario.
What students do
- decide which traits to favor in a selective scenario
- evaluate how repeated selection changes outcomes
- connect artificial selection to broader evolutionary reasoning
Version note
This lesson came from the earlier model-lesson set and should be checked for older screenshots or interface language before assigning it unchanged.