It helps at this time to see some visible features of real populations and how they are distributed as different subspecies in a particular region. This lesson provides and excellent opportunity to show how biology is so nicely integrated by the themes of evolution and the nature of science. Be sure to point these things out to your students. Teams can combine to answer the discussion questions. Ask them to take turns coloring in the squares for each subspecies.
Students read and proceed as directed in handouts.
Class discussion can continue into the third day. For class discussion, you can simply go over their discussion questions, calling on reps from each team randomly or in succession. All needed materials can be downloaded directly. Some of the ideas in this lesson may have been adapted from earlier, unacknowledged sources without our knowledge. If the reader believes this to be the case, please let us know, and appropriate corrections will be made.