Best Practice High School
UNIT 3: EVOLUTION - AS FACT, AS THEORY, ORIGINS OF LIFE, HUMAN EVOLUTION
STANDARDS:
- STATE
GOAL #11 (CAS A,B), STATE GOAL #12 (CAS A-6,7,17,18; B-8; C-4,5,7;
E-1,3,4)
- STATE GOAL #13 (CAS A-1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9; B-1; C-1,3)
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DAY ONE: | WHAT IS EVOLUTION?
FISH ACTIVITY EVOLUTION AS FACT AND THEORY QOD: URSINE EVOLUTION HW: Reading notes pp. 269-271 and ? 1-4 p. 271
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DAY TWO: | EVOLUTION AS FACT: EVIDENCE
1) ANATOMICAL- Embryos, homologous structures, vestigal organs 2) BIOCHEMICAL- DNA, RNA, ATP 3) PHYSICAL- fossil record, carbon dating REVIEW HW p. 271 INTERPRETING EVIDENCE: TRACKS! DIVERSITY OF LIFE INQUIRY LAB: GRASSHOPPERS AND HAND SPAN QOD SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST CARTOON HW: 1) List 4 pieces of evidence for evolution 2) What is the fossil record? What does it tell us?
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| DAY THREE: |
EVOLUTION VIDEO -
Darwin, Natural Selection, Speciation (students take notes for
quiz)
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| DAY FOUR: | EVOLUTION AS THEORY: DARWIN
VS. LAMARCK
FINISH DIVERSITY LAB QOD: MOVEMENT ON TO LAND CARTOON HW: Read section pp. 291-293 and p. 295 ? 1-2
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| DAY FIVE: | ORIGINS OF LIFE
FANTASIA VIDEO AND ORIGIN OF LIFE WORKSHEET TIMELINE OF LIFE ON EARTH GENETIC ENGINEERING/ENDANGERED SPECIES SCENARIOS DEBATE/DISCUSSION HW: Timeline Worksheet
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| DAY SIX: | HUMAN EVOLUTION
-discussion of missconceptions GROUP PRESENTATIONS ON HUMAN ANCESTORS SKULL TREE ACTIVITY- Students arrange skulls in order from common ancestor to the present and draw their prediction of humans in the year 4001 QOD: TRUE OR FALSE/PRIMATE CARTOON HW: Read section 32-4 and answer ?'s p.764 1-3
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| DAY SEVEN: | REVIEW EVOLUTION - STUDY
GUIDE
STUDENTS DISCUSS AND PRESENT SKULL TREE TO CLASS WORK ON INTEGRATED UNIT: EVOLUTION FABLE HW: Evolution Study Guide and STUDY for exam
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DAY EIGHT: | ASSESSMENT OF EVOLUTION -
UNIT EXAM
DISCUSSION OF EVOLUTION ARTICLE- WILL HUMANS EVOLVE? |
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