Download Student Share Guide-Evolution

Evolution: What’s Next?
Photo by Jens Petersen
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Share Overview
The goal of this part of the project
is to share your creation with the
public, simulating what real world
professionals do when developing a
new design for the marketplace.
You will each take on the role of an
industry professional such as a
scientist, artist, or webmaster, and
then work together to create your
final presentation piece.
Industry Roles
 The following slides describe four different
industry roles that team members will take on:
artist, evolutionary biologist, environmental
scientist, and wikispace webmaster. Read them
carefully!
 For teams of 4, each member will choose one
role. For teams of 3, the team will each fill one
of the first three roles and then work together
on creating their wiki.
 If a team can’t decide who will fill each role
within a reasonable time period (~20 minutes)
the teacher will discuss it with the team and
then assign roles if necessary.
Industry Roles
Artist:
In the Create part of the project your team
produced one or more drawings that
illustrated the new species or trait. You may
have also created 3-D models.
The artist’s job is to create the final
drawings (and models), or perfect
those already begun, to use in the
final presentation.
Industry Roles
Artist:
Your artwork should:
• Be carefully drawn/created to show
features of the original organism that have
stayed the same as well as the new
feature that developed through evolution
• Be neat, with few or no smudges, eraser
marks, wrinkles, etc.
• Show appropriate color
• Not include a background or have very
minimal background graphics.
Industry Roles
Evolutionary Biologist:
The job of the evolutionary biologist is to
explain the evolutionary mechanism that
led to the development of the new trait.
You will write a short essay that
describes what change has occurred
and why.
Industry Roles
Evolutionary Biologist:
Your essay should:
• Describe the evolution of the organism
that occurred
• Explain the how the evolution occurred
(discuss how natural selection and/or
other mechanisms of evolution worked to
bring about the new species)
• Be free of spelling, capitalization,
punctuation, and grammar errors.
Industry Roles
Environmental Scientist:
An environmental scientist uses information from a
variety of scientific disciplines to study the
environment.
Your job is to write a description of the
environmental change or conditions that
caused the organism to evolve and develop
the new/different trait, and to explain how
that environmental change was caused by
global warming.
Industry Roles
Environmental Scientist:
Your description should:
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Explain the change in the environment that
caused the species to evolve
Discuss how that change was caused by
global warming
Be free of spelling, capitalization,
punctuation, and grammar errors.
Industry Roles
Wikispace Webmaster:
A webmaster designs websites and uploads
content to those sites.
Your job is to design the best wiki to
showcase your team’s work. You will
scan your illustration(s), photograph
your 3-D model(s) if created, and
upload/post all materials produced by
other team members.
Industry Roles
Wikispace Webmaster:
Your wiki should:
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Be only one page
Make use of headings, color, fonts, etc.
to produce an attractive webpage
Include all content from the artist,
evolutionary biologist, and
environmental scientist
Be well organized (may use a table for
this)
Final Presentation
When the wikis are done, each group
will give a short presentation of their
new species to the class.
Presentations will include showing
the team’s wiki and explaining the
new species and how it came to be.
All team members must participate
in the presentation.
Grading Notes
 While each team member focuses on
completing one job, everyone should review
each other’s work and help each other do their
best.
 Before you are done, each team should
evaluate their project using the rubric that will
be used to grade the project, and then make
improvements as needed.
 Remember, this is a group project and all
members of the group will usually receive the
same grade. If it comes to the attention of the
teacher that someone in the group is not
participating, the teacher reserves the right to
lower that individual’s grade.