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Survival of the Fittest: Variations in the Clam Species Clamys sweetus

This guided inquiry three-part activity engages learners in thinking about the mechanism of natural selection by encouraging them to formulate questions that can be answered through scientific investigation, data collection and pattern recognition. Learners are given a scenario in which a new species of clam is discovered. They will use M&Ms and Reese's Pieces and other simple materials to study variations within the clam population....

Keywords:: Social Sciences, Mutations, Problem Solving, History/Policy/Law, Evidence for Evolution, NSDL, Reasoning and Proof, Ecology, Survival, Physics, Number and Operations, History of Life, General, Earth System Science, Heredity and Genetics, Science and Society, Asking Questions, Variation, Populations, Life Science, Communicating Results, Mathematics, Anthropology, Classification, Candy, Rate, Patterns of Heredity, Education, Patterns, Mechanisms of Evolution, Biological Science, Probability, Representation, Animals, Conducting Investigations, Health/Medicine, Data Representation, Data Analysis, Forestry and Agriculture, Clams, Inheritance, Geoscience, Natural History, Data Collection, Biodiversity, Darwin, Gathering Data, The Scientific Process, General Science, Evolution, Natural Selection, Formulating Explanations