KaiserScience<p>As science teachers using NGSS, we don't just teach facts. We use storylines to connect facts into a larger picture. A fun way to get students interested in evolution can be to use clips from fun science fiction movies. </p><p>Many kids have seen the Tremors series of movies, featuring the fictional animal, Graboids. While fictional, we can ask - if they were real, how could they have evolved? With careful observation and Socratic questioning we inspire students to posit what form of life they could have evolved from - in doing so we cover natural selection, convergent evolution, and clades and phylogenies!</p><p><a href="https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/2018/06/29/graboids/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kaiserscience.wordpress.com/20</span><span class="invisible">18/06/29/graboids/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>evolution</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NGSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NGSS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/storylines" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>storylines</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>biology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/graboids" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>graboids</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/tremors" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tremors</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/clades" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>clades</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/phylogenies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>phylogenies</span></a><br /><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/biologyteachers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>biologyteachers</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/scienceteachers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>scienceteachers</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/highschoolscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>highschoolscience</span></a></p><p>This unit addresses critical thinking skills in the Next Generation Science Standards, based on “A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas” by the National Research Council of the National Academies</p>