EvoLOOTion: Random stuff happens
Evolve your own population of “Loots” and play a game of life that explores
how environmental changes lead to long term shifts in populations. Explore the concepts of evolution and variation and see your colony of ‘Loots’ evolve in unexpected ways.
Students will be working scientifically to:
- Understand how heredity is the process by which genetic information is transmitted from one generation to the next.
- Understand the variation between species and between individuals of the same species means some organisms compete more successfully and reproduce, which in turn may lead to extinction.
- Explore changes in the environment may leave individuals within a species, and some entire species, less well adapted to compete successfully and reproduce, which in turn may lead to extinction.