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| The setting: | Community Park
School, Princeton, NJ, April 6, 2000 Two classrooms: 2nd grade and 3rd grade |
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| The subject: | Life in the Deep Sea Environment | |
| What's unique about this
environment Adaptations to the environment How do organisms adapt to their environment? The Natural Selection Game |
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| The teacher: | Josh Lichtman, Senior, Princeton High School | |
| The mentor | David Reibstein, Outreach Director, Princeton Materials Institute | |
| The lesson:
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Josh fires up the kids with talk of descending in a submarine |
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Kids get excited about strange-looking deep-sea organisms, wonder how they got that way | |
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The natural selection game. Students use hand tools to represent differing types of mouths. "Animals" compete to find out which can pick up the most seeds in 30 seconds. | |
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The natural selection game. Only the most successful have offspring. Here the offspring compete to find out which species survives in this environment. | |
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The organization: |
New Jersey EnvironMentors | |
