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Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Natural Selection InteractiveConcord Consortium: Stem Resources: Natural Selection Interactive
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Concord Consortium
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Grade
3rd - 5th
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Science
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Interactives
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Interactive

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Natural Selection

Curated by ACT

Build a dam in the middle of an ecosystem and observe how the population of plants and animals adapt to their new environment with this science simulation. Learn how the populations adapt to survive in their new habitat. Then remove the dam to see whether there is another shift in the population.

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Concepts

evolution, natural selection, speciation

Additional Tags

geographic isolation, interdependence, science simulation, variation, concord consortium, stem resource, ecosystem

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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