ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How do scientists think life continues to change on Earth?
RELEVANCE: Do people really change?
NGSSS: SC.912.L.15.13; MAFS.912.N-Q.1.1; LAFS.910.SL.1.1
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to:
-identify the conditions required for natural selection.
-relate the conditions required for natural selection to differential reproductive success.
-Continue Journey To Mars Project.
BELL RINGER - Kahoot.it Natural Selection
VOCABULARY: adaptation, adaptive radiation, ancestor, artificial selection, bottleneck, coevolution, convergent evolution, directional selection, disruptive selection, evolution, extinction, fitness, founder effect, gene glow, gene pool, genetic drift, gradualism, mutation, natural selection, punctuated equilibrium, speciation, stabilizing selection
HOME LEARNING: HL 8 Photosynthesis vs cellular respiration comic strip
AGENDA
WHOLE GROUP
We reviewed tie-ins to the focus calendar.
Students then participated in a Kahoot.it on Natural Selection, with the winner receiving a home learning pass.
We reviewed home learning 7 and received instructions for HL 8. You can find HL 8 instructions below.
This is HL 8. You cannot use a home learning pass for this assignment.
We introduced the topics of photosynthesis and cellular respiration by watching a video. You can find the video below.
This is the video. Use it to help with your home learning assignment.
We then reviewed the handouts received last class on how photosynthesis is related to cellular respiration.
We reviewed the cacti and deer handout received last class.
We completed our notes on natural selection from the reading passage assigned in December. You can find the handout on the blog from December 14/15.
We began, but did not finish the GIZMO on Natural Selection.
HOTS:
-How does Darwin address the uncertainties surrounding his theory of descent with modification? What do his methods reveal about the nature of scientific inquiry?
-Does Darwin’s theory of natural selection suggest an optimistic or a pessimistic view of the world?
EXIT STRATEGY:
Three things I learned, two things I found interesting, one question I still have.
