The thinking routine called "Connect, Extend, Question," will be discussed.
- Subject:
- Biology
- Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- iHub
- Date Added:
- 08/29/2019
The thinking routine called "Connect, Extend, Question," will be discussed.
How can we explain why different juncos have different boldness behaviors?
Novel or changing environments expose animals to diverse stressors that likely require coordinated hormonal and behavioral adaptations.
Natural selection can explain the differences in the boldness of individuals from the two junco populations
To answer the question, "How did the UCSD population become bolder than the mountain populations over the last 60 years?," several Student Activity Sheets from prior lessons are listed for review.
Address questions 1-9 in charts provided to complete a scientific explanation.
What questions about this case remain unexplained? Review charts and diagrams.
Explore aerial photos and videos of UCSD campus to explain juncos behavior changes.
What are we hoping to figure out by looking for evidence for how the UCSD campus environment has changed over time?
Review all graphs included in Data Packet in order to understand juncos migrating patterns.
Given that the UCSD juncos have four times more broods of chicks from eggs every year than the mountain juncos, what are some other behaviors you think may have changed in the UCSD junco population since it separated from the mountain population?
Artificial lighting (from campus) triggered the release of sex hormones in some juncos earlier in the year than would occur naturally. This led those juncos to start their mating calls before flying back to the mountains. This resulted in attracting mates which led to having offspring on the UCSD campus. Juncos that did this ended up repeating this mating pattern and staying on campus year round.
There are many physical, behavorial and physiological trait differences between the mountain and UCSD Junco populations. This divergence happened in just 60 years of being separated from one another.
Should we consider the UCSD juncos and mountain juncos to be two different kinds of birds? Review timeline charts and data showcased to answer the question.
How could natural selection have changed the UCSD population over the last 60 years, so that there now is a higher proportion of individuals that have traits that give them a competitive advantage for producing more offspring in the UCSD environment then there were before?
Investigate and compare/contrast photographs of juncos in North America.
Record your observations of how the juncos in North America appear.
Alleles missing from the gene pools of the mountain vs. UCSD Junco populations provide evidence that they aren't interbreeding (or if they are, the babies aren't surviving). We think these juncos should be considered separate species.
Excerpts of the methods, data, and findings that a group of scientists collected by sampling some of the birds in the UCSD population and some of the birds from the mountain populations, to try to determine if they are interbreeding will be investigated.
Compare the alleles in the offspring to the parents (UCSD Juncos & Mountain Junco) populations.