{"id":281,"date":"2008-01-21T19:31:43","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T00:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/2008\/01\/21\/speciation-related-activities\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T19:31:43","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T00:31:43","slug":"speciation-related-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Speciation Related Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the classroom side of things, I have developed\/modified the following assignments and activities in recent years in the hopes of highlighting the importance of Wallace and biogeography to evolutionary theory, and giving my students real world examples that they can work through to\u00a0infer the process of speciation that Darwin and Wallace first uncovered.\u00a0 Suggestions for improvement are welcome, as are posts of the assignments that you use to teach these concepts.<\/p>\n

Assignments<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1) Wallace’s Line<\/a> accompanying article Mr Wallace’s Line<\/a> by Jared Diamond in Discover, August, 1997.<\/p>\n

Activities<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Although these activities don’t relate directly to Wallace’s travels in South America or\u00a0the Malay Archipelago\u00a0they are some of the activities that I have used to introduce plate tectonics and speciation.\u00a0 The two activities on the Hawaiian Islands were adapted from activities and information from Evolution in Hawaii: A Supplement to Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science<\/a><\/em> from the National Academies Press.\u00a0 The Salamander Speciation activity was adapted from an adaptation of Investigation 9.4 in Biological Science: An Ecological Approach (BSCS Green Version), 1987, Kendall\/Hunt Publishing Co.<\/p>\n