Natural Selection Simulation Activity
Grade Level: Grades 7 - 8
Discipline: Biology
The goal of this activity is to help students become familiar with trait variation and how it impacts natural selection. Students should also begin to understand the concept that populations change over time, not individual organisms. The beans represent different colors of mice and the papers represent the color of the environment in which they live.
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