Overview: This set of three PowerPoint slides featuring personal response questions (i.e., multiple choice questions that can be used with "clicker" technology) can be incorporated into lectures on the mechanisms of evolution in order to actively engage students in thinking about evolution. Author/Source: UC Museum of Paleontology Grade level: 13-16 Time: 2 minutes Teaching tips: With increased experience, the instructor will be able to develop new personal response questions, optimizing them for particular applications and topics. To learn more about how personal response questions and other types of active learning activities can be easily incorporated into lecture (and for more downloadable slides!), visit our guide to active learning in the undergraduate classroom. Concepts: Evolution results from natural selection acting upon genetic variation within a population. Mutation is a random process. Teacher background: Genetic Variation Natural Selection

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