Digital Story: Darwin and the Galapagos Islands

Props to Kristin for giving me the idea for this.

• Title Screen: A Visit to Darwin's Enchanted Isles: The Galapagos Islands [image of South American coast, Ecuador labeled, and the Galapagos Islands]
• Science is about understanding how things work [images of machines, people's bodies, tree/flower, aquarium, food web, camoflauging bugs]
• But it is also about people and places [Isaac Newton under the tree, Benjamin Franklin and the kite, Einstein with his tongue out, Jane Goodall and the monkeys]
• Charles Darwin and his study in the Galapagos Islands show how one man and one place can make a huge difference [Darwin old and young, Galapagos Islands panned out, sign, volcano, beach, etc...include picture of Darwin in the Galapagos?]
• In 1831, Charlie Darwin was 22 years old [image of young Darwin]
• His father wanted him to be a doctor or a parson [image of Anglican parson]
• But instead [start fading out] he got a job as a naturalist on the Beagle and spent five years traveling the world. [image of the Beagle, map of its route]
• Of all the places he went [images of South America, Tierra del Fuego, Tahiti, Australia, Cape Town], his travel to the Galapagos Islands is what people remember [sign at island with whale bone, red cliffs, beach]
• While he was there, when he wasn't swimming with sea lions [pic of same], twirling iguanas by their tails [image of marine iguanas on rocks], or trying to figure out how old a tortoise was [image of same], he was studying finches [image]
• Because of those finches, he came up with a great idea [lightbulb]
• But it was new and different...what would people think? [show caricatures, satirical pictures]
• So he didn't do anything. [picture of Darwin sitting in chair]
• Well, nothing other than a lot of scientific research and writing. [images of Voyage of the Beagle, pigeons, rocks, coral, barnacles]
• [black slide: 18 years pass]
• But when it looked like Alfred Wallace [image of young AW] might get all the credit for that great idea, Charlie knew he had to do something. [image of Origin of the Species]
• And so he made history. [Man is But Worm picture]
• He put the Galapagos Islands on the map [picture of map] and changed scientific thought forever [image of Ms. Davis in Darwin Research Station shirt in "thinking" pose.]
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