Source: PhET
Would you like your upper-secondary students to truly understand how natural selection works? Then let them loose on the Natural Selection Simulator from PhET. In this interactive tool, they decide the fate of a rabbit population themselves. They can experiment with traits of the rabbits and with environmental factors such as climate, vegetation and predation. In this way, they discover in a visual and accessible manner how certain characteristics influence survival and reproduction. The simulator not only shows how the population changes over time, but also displays a clear graph of population size per phenotype. This makes a complex biological process tangible and easy to grasp. The simulator is free to use and requires no login. At tinyurl.com/konijnenselectie you can also find accompanying English-language learning resources and assignments.