Inquiry-Based Activities for Teaching about Natural Selection

Teaching evolution is one of the most difficult tasks in biology education since there are a great variety obstacles to its understanding. The inclusion nature science and scientific inquiry, connection with aspects daily life, work based on argumentation, use empirical studies from current research have been identified as important include teaching evolution. In this work, we present series three activities, which were developed after considering all recommendations literature described above. sequence begins example species loved by students: dogs. Through students make their preconceptions explicit. After this, long-term experiment about artificial selection silver fox (Vulpes vulpes) presented (see Glaze, 2018) part reflection experimental evidence that supports Finally, asked generate hypothesis how they think domestication process wolves occurred, eventually resulting outcomes implementation high school classrooms teacher discussed.