Daily Lessons for Teaching Galapagos

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: Book One: The Thing Was, Chapter 1-Chapter 2 There are many theories suggesting how animals arrived on the Galapagos Islands. The objective of this lesson is to analyze the proposed theories as well as arguments against them.

1) 1) Class discussion: Review and discuss the theories for how animals arrive on the Galapagos Islands. What item of transportation did people believe animals took to the islands? Is...
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