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Bridging Darwin's Origin of Species & Wegener's Origin of Continents and Oceans:
Using Biogeography, Phylogeny, Geology & Interactive Learning
Cristina Sousa
The American Biology Teacher, Vol. 78 No. 1, January 2016; (pp. 24-33) DOI: 10.1525/abt.2016.78.1.24
Cristina Sousa
CRISTINA SOUSA was a Research Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and presently works as a teacher and researcher at Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Portugal. E-mail: up199502480@fc.up.pt.
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The common ancestor and evolution by natural selection, concepts introduced by Charles Darwin, constitute the central core of biology research and education. However, students generally struggle to understand these concepts and commonly form misconceptions about them. To help teachers select the most revelant portions of Darwin's work, I suggest some sentences from On the Origin of Species and briefly discuss their implications. I also suggest a teaching strategy that uses history of science and curriculum crosscutting concepts (cause and effect) that constitute the framework to explain the evolutionary history of ratites (flightless birds) as described by Darwin, starting in the Jurassic, with the breakup of Gondwanaland, as first described by Alfred Wegener in The Origin of Continents and Oceans.

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  • interactive activities
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Bridging Darwin's Origin of Species & Wegener's Origin of Continents and Oceans:
Using Biogeography, Phylogeny, Geology & Interactive Learning
Cristina Sousa
The American Biology Teacher, Vol. 78 No. 1, January 2016; (pp. 24-33) DOI: 10.1525/abt.2016.78.1.24
Cristina Sousa
CRISTINA SOUSA was a Research Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and presently works as a teacher and researcher at Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Portugal. E-mail: up199502480@fc.up.pt.
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Bridging Darwin's Origin of Species & Wegener's Origin of Continents and Oceans:
Using Biogeography, Phylogeny, Geology & Interactive Learning
Cristina Sousa
The American Biology Teacher, Vol. 78 No. 1, January 2016; (pp. 24-33) DOI: 10.1525/abt.2016.78.1.24
Cristina Sousa
CRISTINA SOUSA was a Research Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and presently works as a teacher and researcher at Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Portugal. E-mail: up199502480@fc.up.pt.
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    • Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
    • Continental Drift & Plate Tectonics
    • Bridging Paleognaths Described by Darwin & Recent Phylogenetic Evidence
    • Bridging Pangaea Fragmentation & Ratites' Evolutionary History
    • Predicting the Effect of Modern & Future Environmental Changes on Paleognaths
    • Nature of Science Integrated in On the Origin of Species & The Origin of Continents & Oceans
    • WebQuest & Assessment
    • Recommendations for Postsecondary Education
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