A webquest
on evolution
This is a webquest about evolution. You
have to surf the net to find some answers, and show that you are crack in the
new technologies (there is life after tuenti).
Activity one
We
start here, in the USA: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/evo_02
Oh
my God, there some words missing here. Please find them.
Biological
evolution, simply put, is _______________ with modification. The central idea
of biological evolution is that all life on Earth shares a common
_______________, just as you and your cousins share a common grandmother.
Now, click on next: What do frogs and we have in common? We are vertebrate, we
have a skeleton, and _______________
Activity two
Let’s see a movie: Hi, do you know who I am?
Write a shot
description of the video you have just seen:
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Activity three
Now, we cross the Atlantic Ocean and we go
to the UK. Look at this beautiful thing by the BBC: click here
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, and, yes, we have another picture of our dear friend Charlie.
What are the key points of the theory of
evolution? Try to say it with your own words
1.
_______________________________________________________________
2.
________________________________________________________________
3.
________________________________________________________________
4.
________________________________________________________________
Activity four
Just above these
facts on natural selection, you can see a wonderful timeline made be the BBC:
you have to complete the data related to the dates. What happened
4.6 billion years ago? __________________________________
3.5billion years ago __________________________________
1 billion years ago? __________________________________
500 million years ago?
__________________________________
450 million years ago?
__________________________________
390 million years ago? __________________________________
250 million years ago?
__________________________________
220 million years ago?
__________________________________
200. million years ago?
__________________________________
130 million years ago __________________________________
65 million years ago? __________________________________
45 million years ago? __________________________________
3 million years ago? __________________________________
Activity five
Find the answer
to these questions in the Learning area
of this website: http://www.atapuerca.org/
Activity six
So much for
working so hard. Now we are going to play a little: click on these links:
And now take
this easy quiz:
Activity 7
Complete these
Hot potatoes
Follow up
activity: we have stopped in the time line at moment of the apparition of the
first hominid. Now it is up to you to create a time line with the highlights of
Human Evolution. You must look up for your data, describe the facts with your
words and add your pictures. It you don’t know how to do it, click here and you will get wonderful ideas
