18/05/20 - NATURAL SELECTION

This lesson recaps what you have already found out about Darwin and gives you more information about his studies:

Now have a read about what Darwin discovered about Finches on the Galapagos Islands:

BATTLE OF THE BEAKS!

Battle of the beaks - a game which will represent Darwin’s finches. (Fun for all the family!)

Each person needs a different piece of equipment which will represent a range of different bird’s beaks e.g. bulldog clip, tweezers, clothes pegs etc.
Then you must find some different items of food to have a go picking up with your variety of ‘beaks’ e.g. seeds, frozen peas, sweetcorn, berries, pieces of pasta (to represent insects!) etc.
Once you’ve set up, start a timer of sixty seconds and see how many items of food your ‘beak’ can pick up and place on a plate (and no, you cannot count the items that you dropped!). Whoever has the most has ‘survived and thrived’.
Discuss which ‘beak’ was the most successful at picking up the food and why that might be.

Or you can do this investigation on your own:

Now, can you work out which bird lived on which island? You will need your best detective skills here!