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Cuckoo: Co-evolution and natural selection
This role play activity illustrates natural selection, based on the cuckoo/host example of co-evolution. as well as providing opportunities for developing key scientific skills such as experimental design and research.
Examples of natural selection and evolution in secondary education tend to focus on physical structures or characteristics of organisms, such as the adaptive camouflage of peppered moths. Yet animal behaviour is also shaped by natural selection and provides interesting and varied possibilities for approaching the topic of evolution in lessons.
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Cuckoo game Cuckoo instructions 44.19 KB
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Cuckoo game Dunnock instructions 50.55 KB
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Cuckoo game Meadow pipit instructions 298.88 KB
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Cuckoo game Pied Wagtail instructions 191.38 KB
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Cuckoo presentation 1.61 MB
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Cuckoo game Cuckoo instructions 44.19 KB -
Cuckoo game Dunnock instructions 50.55 KB
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Cuckoo game Meadow pipit instructions 298.88 KB
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Cuckoo game Pied Wagtail instructions 191.38 KB
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Cuckoo presentation 1.61 MB -
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