Evolution Unit Reflection
For the past two months, we've been focusing on the theory of evolution. We've watched Your Inner Fish, a show about how we evolved from fish and reptiles and primates, made a poster about how we view evolution, made a clay model of two crossed categories (ie. Mammal and Amphibian), read an evolution book, wrote an evolution book review (see tab), and made a video to go with our clay model.
In our evolution poster, we drew what we thought evolution meant to us. I drew a fish, leading to a fish with four webbed feet, leading to a porcupine-looking thing, leading to a chimpanzee, and finally a human. I drew an orange path connecting all of them so you could see the start and end of the evolution path. The human was drawn the largest, symbolizing the great abundance of technological advances of mankind. I drew hair on each of the species, to show when mammals were first evolved. We evolved from fish, reptiles, and primates (and other things) and I think I showed that very well in the poster.
A clay model was made by each group to show what species would be created if there was a gap between two major categories of evolved species. Your group could make a model of a mammal and a reptile, a reptile and a fish, an amphibian and a reptile, etc. My group made a "mamphibian", a cross between a mammal and an amphibian. It has a green, scaled tail that helps it retain balance. It has four blue legs to help it travel and escape predators, teeth to eat and defend itself, a long tongue to eat bugs, and its yellow body is slimy like a frog but also has little hairs like a mammal. We only had the limited options of yellow, blue, green, and red clay. We took pictures and videos of it by a pond and by a tree.
Overall, I think this unit was successful and fun. We completed various projects and I learned way more about evolution than I previously knew.
I hope we do more units like this, with fun projects but NOT presentations. I hate those.
For the past two months, we've been focusing on the theory of evolution. We've watched Your Inner Fish, a show about how we evolved from fish and reptiles and primates, made a poster about how we view evolution, made a clay model of two crossed categories (ie. Mammal and Amphibian), read an evolution book, wrote an evolution book review (see tab), and made a video to go with our clay model.
In our evolution poster, we drew what we thought evolution meant to us. I drew a fish, leading to a fish with four webbed feet, leading to a porcupine-looking thing, leading to a chimpanzee, and finally a human. I drew an orange path connecting all of them so you could see the start and end of the evolution path. The human was drawn the largest, symbolizing the great abundance of technological advances of mankind. I drew hair on each of the species, to show when mammals were first evolved. We evolved from fish, reptiles, and primates (and other things) and I think I showed that very well in the poster.
A clay model was made by each group to show what species would be created if there was a gap between two major categories of evolved species. Your group could make a model of a mammal and a reptile, a reptile and a fish, an amphibian and a reptile, etc. My group made a "mamphibian", a cross between a mammal and an amphibian. It has a green, scaled tail that helps it retain balance. It has four blue legs to help it travel and escape predators, teeth to eat and defend itself, a long tongue to eat bugs, and its yellow body is slimy like a frog but also has little hairs like a mammal. We only had the limited options of yellow, blue, green, and red clay. We took pictures and videos of it by a pond and by a tree.
Overall, I think this unit was successful and fun. We completed various projects and I learned way more about evolution than I previously knew.
I hope we do more units like this, with fun projects but NOT presentations. I hate those.