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Hm... my presentation was just a bunch of notes- but I'll summarize here!  Emily and I decided to look at evolution from two different points of view... I put a picture from the Hubble Space telescope up on the screen, that showed a whole bunch of different galaxies, the furthest we've ever been able to see into space, and asked the class what they thought was beyond what we know...whether we'd even be able to identify life out there, if it exists, or if our standards and measurements for life would be so far off that we wouldn't be able to even recognize it...  Emily brought us "back to Earth", showing a clip from Planet Earth of a bird with..unusual habits, and played the clip without sound, having us create our own stories (I thought the bird was dancing), and then played the clip with sound and narration, where the bird was actually doing a mating dance/cleaning... we talked about evolution a little and made our own stories, shared (gave candy!), and thought about our small planet, and all that has evolved that we don't even know about, and thought about all the possibilties that could be out there. http://motivate.maths.org/conferences/conf86/Images/Hubble_large.jpg (the telescope picture)