Natural Selection & Adaptations. Evidence of Evolution Escape Room

Description

Looking for engaging evidence of evolution activity? This escape room style evolution and natural selection review is a great way to get ready for an upcoming test.

This is a 4 part escape room that can be adapted for your students into anything from seat work to a full-blown escape room experience. Depending on your time and your classes.

4 tasks:

1. Students are asked to sort clues into one of two categories: evidence or not.
2. Students are given a list of social media posts from a researcher going through the process of analyzing a fossil record. They are asked to put them in order.
3. Students are asked to use their text to answer questions about Darwin’s finches.
4. Students use the answers in the previous tasks to break the code and solve the encrypted message – which is a key statement about evolution.