Beak Adaptations and Natural Selection: How Environment Shapes Survival

Assessment · Grade 5 · Life Science / Biological Evolution

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Grade

Name: Engage
Minutes: 10
Purpose: Surface students' prior knowledge about animal survival and spark curiosity about why birds look different by presenting a puzzling real-world phenomenon — before any vocabulary or formal concepts are introduced.
Materials

Q1. Look at the class data table showing which beak tool collected the most food at each station. Choose ONE environment and explain: (1) which beak shape had the best survival advantage, and (2) WHY that beak shape was selected over time in that environment. Use evidence from the data.

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