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The Process of Natural Selection: Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches Experiment

Explore the concept of natural selection through a fun experiment involving making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Learn about adaptations, inherited traits, and the survival of organisms based on their environment. Compare different explanations and complete an organizer to understand the process better.

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The Process of Natural Selection: Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches Experiment

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  1. Natural Selection It is a process!

  2. Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwiches Process B Process A • 2 slices of bread • Put the peanut butter on the first piece of bread. • Put the jelly on the second piece of bread. • Put the two pieces of bread together. • 2 slices of bread • Put peanut butter on both slices of bread. • Put jelly on top of one piece of bread. • Put the two pieces of bread together. Which one is better?

  3. Vocabulary - RIGHT Natural Selection Adaptations A process by which individuals with traits that better suit the environment are more likely to survive longer and reproduce more successfully. • Inherited traits that increase an organism’s chance of surviving and reproducing successfully. What are the key words in both definitions? • Surviving and reproducing successfully.

  4. Text to text comparison - RIGHT Our book pg 216 The “other book” pg 310 • 4 steps • 4 steps TALK with your partner, and then record what is different about these descriptions and what is the same. What is the same What is different

  5. LEFT – Using the information from both books, complete the organizer in your notebook in your own words. 1 - Overproduction 2 – Inherited variation 3 – Struggle to survive 4 – Successful Reproduction

  6. Left - Recap • What is natural selection? • It is a PROCESS! • Organisms overproduce, • there is genetic variation • there is a struggle to survive, • You must live long enough to successfully reproduce. • It starts all over again…

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