The following Frame, Focus and Follow-up suggestions are best suited for elementary or middle school students using this video in an English language arts or science lesson. Be sure to modify the questions to meet your students' instructional needs.
What is Frame, Focus and Follow-up?
Frame (ELA) Do you have a pet dog? Dogs are domesticated. Wolves and coyotes are not domesticated. They are wild. What do you know about wild wolves or coyotes? How do you think dogs evolved from being wild to becoming domesticated pets?
Focus (ELA) There are different ideas or theories about how some wild wolves evolved from being wild to being domestic. Watch this video to learn two theories about the evolution of dogs through a historical perspective. The video looks at the history of dogs to learn about them today.
Frame (SCI) What is evolution?
Focus (SCI) One theory of how dogs became domestic involves human waste and dump sites. Learn about how dumps may have been a factor in the evolution of dogs.