The best part about my group was that we found a way to connect all our lesson plans to our curriculum. My favorite lesson plan is a scientific experiment that no one knows the answer to as it hasn’t been done before. The students will use the camera traps and take data as they normally would. After a couple weeks a pink yard flamingo will be placed in front of the camera and the students will then look at the new photos and record any observations they see with the animals and the flamingo. It is our thought that animals from a more urban environment would not be affected by flamingo as they are used to these different objects, but animals in a more rural environment might be put off by the flamingo as they have not seen an object like that before.
I will be implementing this lesson plan during our evolution unit. We talk about adaptations and how if something is unable to adapt to a changing environment it would then die off and not be able to pass on its genetic material. I am excited to talk to my students about the different adaptations they believe would best suit a mammal living in their particular area.