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Learning about EvolutionGrades 6-8By: Lucia Lopez

+2. Create original animations or videos documenting school, community, or local events. (1,2,6)

Students were required to interview 20 people from their community and school about their own human evolution theory.

They were required to document their information using; video, pictures, or voice recording.

+Gather data, examine patterns, and apply information for decision making using digital tools and resources. (1,4)3.

With the information acquired, students will create a spreadsheet and group all the common responses.

Students will work in groups to create a graph expressing all the results from the interviews.

+4. Participate in a cooperative learning project in an online learning community. (2)

The second part of the lesson will be provided with information from reliable internet sources, regarding real studies on People’s belief of human evolution. They will be comparing their obtained data with the results of the real studies.

+7. Select and use the appropriate tools and digital resources to accomplish a variety of task and solve problems. (3,4,6)

They will continue their lesson by analyzing where each belief came from and through the use of a power-point, students will list and discuss five things they were able to learn during this assignment and will give their own opinion about human evolution.