Lesson 35 of 84 · Atomic Structure
Lesson⭐ 30 XP🧪 Potion KitchenNatural Selection and Evolution
Atomic Structure.
🎯 Your mission
Master the concept. Use it tomorrow.
⚡ The twist
Mixing two safe things doesn't always make a safe thing.
Mind = Blown
💧 Hot water can freeze faster than cold water under the right conditions. Nobody fully understands why.
Make a hypothesis first
Predict: will the mixture get hotter, colder, or stay the same?
What You'll Learn
Natural selection is the process in which organisms with helpful traits survive and reproduce more successfully than those without them. Over many generations this can lead to evolution, such as when moths with darker wings became common in soot-covered forests.
Key Words
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Steps
Study the diagram and label the parts you recognize.
Dissect a flower (lily or tulip works well). Identify and label the sepals, petals, stamen, pistil, and ovary. Tape each part to paper.
Note any unexpected results and think about why they happened.
Share your findings with the class or a partner and discuss what you learned.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What do hibernating animals do?
Where you see this in real life
This is happening in your kitchen right now — every time food cooks.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Find one ingredient in a snack and look up what it does.
For the dinner table
“What's something we cook that mixes things together this way?”
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