Opposable Thumb Adaptation & Natural Selection activity, application, experiment

Challenge your students to do common tasks WITHOUT THEIR THUMBS!

Details:

• In this activity and experiment- students will see the benefit of the adaptation of the opposable thumb.
• The students are asked to perform various tasks as quickly as possible with simple materials.
• Students can compete against a partner or you can run this as a whole class activity.
• Application questions are included to guide students understanding of Adaptations and Natural Selection.
• There are 2 versions of the activity- one where they are timed and one where they are not- you can choose which will suit your students best!

This is a crowd pleaser and a fun way to wrap up or introduce a unit on adaptations or natural selection!

Materials: hex nuts (or something to stack), shoes to be ties, pennies, beads, bowls, balloons, paper and pencils and a deck of cards

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