Lesson Plan
Crashes; Survival and Evolution
The human body is vulnerable. We’re not designed to survive road crashes. ‘Graham’, a lifelike sculpture created by the TAC and Monash University Accident Research Centre, shows how humans would need to evolve if we were to survive.
In this lesson, students use the Meet Graham digital experience to explore risks to different body parts of a road crash, and how these body parts would need to evolve to survive a crash. They then discuss the advantages and disadvantages, as well as the likelihood, of these evolutionary changes.
This activity supports:
- The theory of evolution by natural selection includes the processes of variation, isolation and adaptation and is supported by evidence including the fossil record, biogeography and comparative embryology; the theory explains past and present biodiversity and demonstrates how all organisms have some degree of relatedness to each other (VC2S10U05)
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