Backround
For this project, we were told to make a cladogram, an organization of similar organisms based on traits, and come up with stories to support what our cladogram says. To start, we received around 70 pieces of small hardware materials and started to organize them into different families based on physical appearance alone. Then, we divided these groups based on features such as, color, material, size, and ridges. On a poster paper we then made a rough sketch of our cladogram and started to organize the organisms more. Then, we flipped the paper and started our final draft while writing imaginative stories about these hardware material's lives and niches, as if they were living organisms. Finally, we compiled all the data and pictures into a slideshow and presented to the class. Organization of organisms in important because it allows scientists and students to group organisms based on similarities, so you can find similarities in adaptations, DNA, and physical traits.
Our Presentation
Concepts
Taxonomy: Classification chart of organisms starting with the domain and ending the classification of species.
Cladogram: A chart used to show the relationship between organisms based on physical traits and other details.
Evolution: Development and change of an organism or group of organism over time causing them to go through a mutation that negatively or positively benefits them in some way.
Speciation: New and distinct species from an evolutionary change.
Genetic diversity: Members of certain species need to have different genetics to create an offspring with a fertile gene pool, without much genetic variation organisms would only reproduce with incest, not varying much in genetics.
Cladogram: A chart used to show the relationship between organisms based on physical traits and other details.
Evolution: Development and change of an organism or group of organism over time causing them to go through a mutation that negatively or positively benefits them in some way.
Speciation: New and distinct species from an evolutionary change.
Genetic diversity: Members of certain species need to have different genetics to create an offspring with a fertile gene pool, without much genetic variation organisms would only reproduce with incest, not varying much in genetics.
Our organization/story document
Story Document | |
File Size: | 16 kb |
File Type: | docx |
Reflection
A project made of this much creativity and freedom was destined for some sort of negative ending. Lucky for us we worked around the odds and finished successfully, with an accurate and detailed final cladogram, and eloquent presentation. My group worked very well together with little or very minor errors. We all communicated, even multiple times outside of school, to perfect our project in our own time showing our overall effort. Also, we worked through the busy and loud classroom, managing to find success through multiple daily distractions, whether it may be a class dispute, or a lab interrupting our project. Negatives were rarely found in our group, although I can name a few. First, as mentioned before, class distraction played a major role in work ethic overall. As well, certain members came to school late everyday or chose not to show up at all leaving the other three members to take their workload and divide it amongst our selves. All in all, this project found itself to be a greatly positive learning experience, and a step closer to understanding evolution and it's complicated process.