ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How can populations evolve to form new species?
NGSSS: SC.912.L.15.13; SC.912.L.15.15; A.912.L.15.15
BENCHMARKS:
-Describe the conditions required for natural selection, including: overproduction of offspring, inherited variation, and the struggle to survive, which result in differential reproductive success. -Discuss mechanisms of evolutionary change other than natural selection such as genetic drift and gene flow.- Describe how mutation and genetic recombination increase genetic variation.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to:
-identify the conditions required for natural selection.
-relate the conditions required for natural selection to differential reproductive successes.
-recognize some of the scientific mechanisms resulting in evolutionary change.
BELL RINGER: Complete the formative assessment Habitat Change by choosing the statement(s) you believe to be correct and explain your answer. This will go in the center of your Cornell notes.
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| This is your bell ringer. Once you make a new Cornell notes page (be sure to add the date, benchmark and essential question to your table of contents), paste this in the center of the Cornell notes. |
VOCABULARY: adaptation, adaptive radiation, ancestor, artificial selection, bottleneck, coevolution, convergent evolution, directional selection, disruptive selection, evolution, extinction
HOME LEARNING: Study for Mid-year Biology Exam
Students completed the bell ringer (see above and shared their answers in class).
Students submitted and reviewed HL 8.
Students viewed a BrainPop on Natural Selection. You can watch it at the link Natural Selection.
We then, as a class, completed the Peppered Moth Simulation. Click the link to access the activity. Be sure to answer all questions in your interactive notebook.
We did not complete the entire activity, and will do so at a later date.
Remember, all work must be submitted by Wednesday of this week.
