Model Jury

Interactive life science

Follow the evidence across generations.

Use photographs and field notes to learn how variation and natural selection change populations. Make your own explanation, compare it with BioGuide, and improve it with evidence.

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Your first visit opens the short layout guide automatically.

  • Heritable variation
  • Field evidence
  • Natural selection
A single red-orange lobed leaf resting on brown leaf litter
Field record · specimen 01

Start with the visible traits. What can this photograph support on its own?

Photo: Jeremy Cooper · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

Your path through the lesson

Four stages. One clear next step at a time.

Each screen tells you where you are, what to do now, and what opens next. The science stays at the center from the first observation through the final report.

  1. 01

    Study

    Learn the biology and inspect the photographs, counts, and field notes.

  2. 02

    Analyze

    Make your own call, then compare it with BioGuide's mostly correct answer.

  3. 03

    Revise

    Fix the smallest evidence problem and try the stronger explanation on new cases.

  4. 04

    Report

    Explain what held up and decide what role BioGuide should have in this assignment.

Worked example

Compare your explanation with BioGuide.

BioGuide answers five opening questions. Four answers are sound; one begins with true observations and then makes a tiny leap the record cannot support. The lesson gives you the biology and sources needed to find it.

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4/5

Most BioGuide answers are correct, so the weak claim is deliberately subtle.

Goal

Find the exact sentence, match it to a source, and write a stronger explanation.

Courtroom challenge

Take BioGuide to court.

Find BioGuide's exact mistakes, match each one to evidence, and decide whether it is reliable enough for this assignment.

Dev accessCase 03 / BioGuide
Developer court demo
  • 3 prepared mistakes
  • Courtroom music and sound
  • No class progress changed
Start at evidence 1 Skip to final decision
Demo only: start with the evidence, or load all 3 mistakes as proven and jump to the final decision. Student progress is unchanged.

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