Kōkiri Lab
Kōkiri Lab

Biodiversity & Discovery · Week 8 of 9

Field guide pages and adaptation model

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Today's goal

Create field guide pages explaining adaptations; improve them after another group tests them.

By the end

Page revised after testing.

What we'll do (60 minutes)

  1. Make a field guide page: organism, adaptation, why it helps here, ID tips20 min
  2. Another group tries to identify an animal using your page10 min
  3. Refine the page from their feedback10 min
  4. Thinking check 3 (individual)15 min
  5. Plan the share5 min

Need a hand?

Page template with prompts.

Want a challenge?

Add a note on heritable variation and selection.

Try this week

This week includes a Thinking check: a short task you do on your own, so you and your teacher can see how your thinking is growing. It is not marked.

Student worksheets for Biodiversity & Discovery (Word)