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Conduct exercises to learn about specific species and create projects. Imagine what their own Glass Bubbles might be like.
Using evolution-of-species charts, maps of continental drift and records of climate over the ages examine the evolutionary changes in your chosen
species, imagining the glass bubbles, or global communities in which they lived at each stage of development.
Consider climate, food supply, possible life hazards.
Think!
Pretend you are there.
Use your imagination to pretend you are actually inside that glass bubble,
that global community, with your selected species. Feel the situation.
Respond to the need of your species. Understand what makes things happen.
Oral Presentations or Papers
* Describe why major physical changes came to the
body of your chosen species over time, even causing sub-species.
* Clarify how climate changes caused the need for
a different kind of food, and illustrate how the body adapted and changed
in certain areas to accommodate the new food, new location, new climate.
Document how life-styles changed and sub-species developed over the ages.
* Record the special skills in survival, collection
of food, dealing with danger, of the various sub-species as evolution occured
in its different branches of the family tree.
Follow-up
Bringing the new knowledge home to see how it fits in our lives as well.
Imagine
You are in your private glass bubble, the global community in which you live every day.
Changes have come to your environment:
- Temperatures have shot up 10% and stayed there.
- There is no place for the water to drain off, and the rain falls every day.
How does this influence your daily life?
How do you dress?
How do you get to school?
Where do you play?
Where does your food come from now?
What is there around that you could eat?
What new skills do you need to develop?
How are the adults in your life coping with this?
What happened to their jobs?
Where would they move?
Suppose the climate change in our imaginary scenario persisted.
How might the human species evolve over the next 10,000 years?
Create a class project
Make a panoramic model of a global community with evolved humans, who
have survived the heat and the water. Show all the likely adaptations they
would make. Record other life-style changes including food.
Students taking part in such a study are quite likely to internalize
the following basic truths:
* what we put into our bodies matters
* nature's laws must be respected and adapted to
* climate can be dealt with once we understand its causes
* there is still time for us to "clean up our act" as humans, and co-operate with nature to keep this planet healthy and comfortable for all life forms
* every species relies heavily for survival on the co-operation and support of its global community
* every single thing in a global community is an important part of the whole
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