Reading Trait-Frequency Data: Natural Selection Across Generations
Guided Lesson · ≈ 45 min · Grade 7 · Science · Pennsylvania
What the teacher typed
- What should students learn?
- Use trait-frequency data to explain how natural selection changes a population over generations.
- Anything I should know?
- “Last year half of them came away thinking the animals change on purpose. Watch for that.”
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Grade 7 · Science
Pennsylvania
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Use mathematical representations to support explanations of how natural selection may lead to increases and decreases of specific traits in populations over time.
3.1.6-8.T · Pennsylvania STEELS Standards (Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability)
Pennsylvania STEELS Standards (22 Pa. Code Chapter 4). Source: Pennsylvania Department of Education, Standards Aligned System (pdesas.org), "STEELS Standards Revised May 2023".
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