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Help your students explore mutations and natural selection with the Natural Selection Virtual Lab Activity with Guided Student Worksheets & Science PhET Simulation!

Designed to promote scientific inquiry, this no-prep interactive virtual lab activity allows students to explore mutations and natural selection using an NGSS-aligned phenomena-based science simulation! The student worksheet guides students through the simulation to ensure comprehension and understanding, while also encouraging students to make predictions, observations, analyze data, and form conclusions. Check out the preview to see more!

Skills Students Will Practice:

⚗️Test their Pre-Existing Knowledge of Mutations

⚗️Describe how Blending into the Environment can increase Survival Rates

⚗️Analyze how Fur Color Mutations can Impact Population Numbers

⚗️Compare Population Proportions with Dominant or Recessive Mutations

⭐ This Activity is Perfect for:

⚗️ Middle school and high school science lessons

⚗️ NGSS-aligned science instruction

⚗️ Virtual labs for blended, digital, or distance learning

⚗️ Sub plans, enrichment, or independent practice

NOTE: This activity links to the free Interactive from PhET Simulations. Check it out below!

Natural Selection

Purchase includes the 4-page Student Worksheet (PDF), 4-page Teacher Answer Key (PDF), and 4-page Digital Student Worksheet (Google Slides) that is hyperlinked in the Teacher Answer Key.

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Natural Selection Virtual Lab Worksheets | Evolution Inquiry PhET Simulation

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6th - 12th
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12
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Teaching Duration
50 minutes

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Description

Help your students explore mutations and natural selection with the Natural Selection Virtual Lab Activity with Guided Student Worksheets & Science PhET Simulation!

Designed to promote scientific inquiry, this no-prep interactive virtual lab activity allows students to explore mutations and natural selection using an NGSS-aligned phenomena-based science simulation! The student worksheet guides students through the simulation to ensure comprehension and understanding, while also encouraging students to make predictions, observations, analyze data, and form conclusions. Check out the preview to see more!

Skills Students Will Practice:

⚗️Test their Pre-Existing Knowledge of Mutations

⚗️Describe how Blending into the Environment can increase Survival Rates

⚗️Analyze how Fur Color Mutations can Impact Population Numbers

⚗️Compare Population Proportions with Dominant or Recessive Mutations

⭐ This Activity is Perfect for:

⚗️ Middle school and high school science lessons

⚗️ NGSS-aligned science instruction

⚗️ Virtual labs for blended, digital, or distance learning

⚗️ Sub plans, enrichment, or independent practice

NOTE: This activity links to the free Interactive from PhET Simulations. Check it out below!

Natural Selection

Purchase includes the 4-page Student Worksheet (PDF), 4-page Teacher Answer Key (PDF), and 4-page Digital Student Worksheet (Google Slides) that is hyperlinked in the Teacher Answer Key.

Looking for more Evolution Virtual Labs? Shop these products

⚗️ Flowering Plant Adaptations Guided Virtual Science Lab Activity

⚗️ Environmental & Genetic Factors Guided Virtual Science Lab Activity

⚗️ Extreme Adaptations Guided Virtual Science Lab Activity

⚗️ Common Ancestry Guided Virtual Science Lab Activity

⚗️ Phylogenetic Trees Guided Virtual Science Lab Activity

❗Permission is granted to copy pages specifically for student or teacher use only by the original purchaser or licensee. The reproduction of this product for any other use is strictly prohibited. Copying this product in any part and placing it on the Internet (even on a personal website) is strictly prohibited and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA).

_________________________________________________________________

⭐ BE THE FIRST TO LEARN ABOUT NEW SCIENCE RESOURCES! ⭐

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Rated 5 out of 5
May 4, 2025
I had trouble finding a lab for natural selection and this resource was great.
Elizabeth S.
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Grades taught: 9th
Rated 5 out of 5
May 22, 2024
Good practical resource, easy for students to follow.
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Rated 5 out of 5
July 20, 2023
Great resource! very easy to use and great review after going over the lesson.
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Grades taught: 8th
Rated 5 out of 5
September 23, 2022
Great compliment to the Phet resource.
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Rated 5 out of 5
June 30, 2022
This was a great resource that kept my online students engaged during our lesson. It was just the right amount of depth and breadth of the content.
Kelly B.
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Rated 5 out of 5
March 24, 2022
Highly engaging!
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Rated 5 out of 5
February 16, 2022
Great resource!
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NGSSHS-LS4-3
Apply concepts of statistics and probability to support explanations that organisms with an advantageous heritable trait tend to increase in proportion to organisms lacking this trait. Emphasis is on analyzing shifts in numerical distribution of traits and using these shifts as evidence to support explanations. Assessment is limited to basic statistical and graphical analysis. Assessment does not include allele frequency calculations.
NGSSHS-LS4-4
Construct an explanation based on evidence for how natural selection leads to adaptation of populations. Emphasis is on using data to provide evidence for how specific biotic and abiotic differences in ecosystems (such as ranges of seasonal temperature, long-term climate change, acidity, light, geographic barriers, or evolution of other organisms) contribute to a change in gene frequency over time, leading to adaptation of populations.
NGSSMS-LS4-4
Construct an explanation based on evidence that describes how genetic variations of traits in a population increase some individuals’ probability of surviving and reproducing in a specific environment. Emphasis is on using simple probability statements and proportional reasoning to construct explanations.
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