Botanical Phylo-Cards: A Tree-Thinking Game to Teach Plant Evolution

摘要: Abstract Students often have limited understanding of the major innovations in plant evolution. We developed a card sorting activity based on tree thinking that is suitable for students with wide range abilities and experience. Through this activity, learn how scientists organize taxa into biologically meaningful, natural groups illustrate important events terrestrial The corresponds to several NGSS standards use classroom or laboratory settings as public educational outreach activity. Botanical Phylo-Card Game addresses components Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS Lead States, 2013) such Inheritance/Variation Traits (3-LS3-1, HS-LS3-1, HS-LS4-2) Natural Selection/Evolution (MS-LS4-2, HS-LS4-1). game involves disciplinary core ideas about biodiversity, evolution, common ancestry; crosscutting concepts regarding identification interpretation patterns; scientific practices constr...