Understanding Darwinism

Students learn about taxonomic classification by categorizing fictional animal-like forms into species based on their physical features. Goals: to illustrate the process of taxonomic classification to demonstrate that historical approaches to...

In SLS 12, Erin Blevins engages her students by bringing in actual fish in order to start a discussion of adaptation and evolution. As Erin writes in her Derek Bok Center blog posting, "As everyone observes the fish and consults the specimen labels, they...