Task 10: A webquest

A webquest on evolution

This is a webquest about evolution. You have to surf the net to find some answers, and show that you are crack in the new technologies (there is life after tuenti).

Activity one

We start here, in the USA: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/evo_02

Oh my God, there some words missing here. Please find them.

Biological evolution, simply put, is _______________ with modification. The central idea of biological evolution is that all life on Earth shares a common _______________, just as you and your cousins share a common grandmother.

  

Now, click on next: What do frogs and we have in common? We are vertebrate, we have a skeleton, and _______________

 

Activity two

Let’s see a movie: Hey, do you know who I am?

Write a shot description of the video you have just seen:

Activity three

Now, we cross the Atlantic Ocean and we go to the UK. Look at this beautiful thing by the BBC: click here

and, yes, we have another picture of our dear friend Charlie.

What are the key points of the theory of evolution? Try to say it with your own words

1.      _______________________________________________________________

2.      ________________________________________________________________

3.      ________________________________________________________________

4.      ________________________________________________________________

Activity four

Just above these facts on natural selection, you can see a wonderful timeline made be the BBC: you have to complete the data related to the dates. What happened

   4.6 billion years ago? __________________________________

3.5billion years ago __________________________________

1 billion years ago? __________________________________

500 million years ago? __________________________________

450 million years ago? __________________________________

390 million years ago? __________________________________

250 million years ago? __________________________________

220 million years ago?  __________________________________

200. million years ago? __________________________________

130 million years ago __________________________________

65 million years ago? __________________________________

45 million years ago? __________________________________

     3 million years ago? __________________________________

Activity five

 Find the answer to these questions in the Learning area of this website:

 http://www.atapuerca.org/ 

Activity six

So much for working so hard. Now we are going to play a little: click on these links:

 Let's play 1

 Let's play 2

And now take this easy quiz: human evolution quiz

Follow up activity: we have stopped in the time line at moment of the apparition of the first hominid. Now it is up to you to create a time line with the highlights of Human Evolution. You must look up for your data, describe the facts with your words and add your pictures. It you don’t know how to do it, click  here and you will get wonderful ideas