Adaptation:

Model-Making Lab - Adaptation: It's a Way of LIfe

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This activity demonstrates that birds have adapted specific physical structures in relation to their food supply. Students will first predict how well different “beaks” will work. Then they will use various tools to simulate the effectiveness of different shaped bird beaks in obtaining food from four different environments.