Virtual museum visit – evolution in the dinosaur and bird clades
Go to https://www.biointeractive.org/classroom-resources/interactive-assessment-origin-birds and launch the interactive video. As you are watching the video you will need to complete the assessment questions along the way to proceed. Watch the entire video. Think about the evolutionary steps needed to separate a flying, endothermic avian from scaled, running reptiles. What evidence did they give for this transition?
Using the evidence you gathered from the virtual path, you will discuss evolution in the dinosaur and bird clades. You will need to gather 2 outside sources to use, in addition to the AMNH information or HHMI information. These sources must be peer reviewed, scientific journal articles. The sources cannot be older than 20 years (so, 2000-2020 publications), cannot be books or review articles, and cannot be websites. You will paraphrase information from these sources into your own words to construct a valid argument for your thoughts.
How to find and evaluate journal sources. A primary literature source is a peer-reviewed scientific article which details the original research on a topic a group did. This is not a review paper, which synthesizes multiple sources into a single article. It must be on one specific experiment or discovery. You can find peer reviewed articles through library pages (use search engines like ProQuest Biology or the WorldCat general search), or by using Google Scholar. You must limit your search to the past 20 years!
