Animal Evolution Workshop

To get the most out of the Animal Evolution Workshop, we suggest studying the following aspects at school before the visit:

To understand the students’ interests and increase motivation about the animals: 

• Look for information about fossil.
• Realise that evolution expresses individual conditioning to population dynamics.
• Have a debate on the topic ‘Man comes from monkeys’: analyse the genetic proximity of the different species of primates (students can consult the sheets on gorillas, drills, orang-utans, lemurs), look for information about the discoveries of the Atapuerca archaeological site and information about research into the human genome, etc , ).

To observe animals: 

• Visit the Museum of Palaeontology in Sabadell.
• Visit the Zoology Museum and Geology Museum.
• Go to observe fossils, for example in the Sau marshlands.

As specific objectives:

• Introduce the concepts of mutation, natural selection, adaptive convergence and adaptive divergence.
• Study the formation and separation of the continents to explain the current distribution of animal species.
• Teach the importance of fossils to be able to study the evolution of the species.
• Describe the category of biological species.