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 - Natural Selection Pre-test
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 5 Evolution by Natural Selection
AGENDA
WHOLE GROUP
This lesson will involve taking notes and looking for reliable information. It also involves using higher order thinking skills to write questions.
Students took a pre-test on natural selection as the bell ringer.
Students received HL 5, which can be found below.
This is HL 5. Read the information and answer the in-text questions. Submit your answers to the final two questions on your own paper. Use complete sentences.
We viewed a video on natural selection and wrote a level three question on a sticky. You can find the video below.
This is the video. Write a level three question based on the information presented in the video.
Students then read and took two column notes from the following passage.
This is the reading passage. It will also go in your notebook, along with your two column notes.
An example of what the notes should look like:
We did not complete the notes, as students from the odd day were given an extra 20 minutes to complete their exams, since it was early release on the day they took the test. We will resume notes next class period.
Students were asked to begin thinking of three things they learned, two things they found interesting, and one question they still have and record this in the Cornell notes section. This is ongoing until the notes are completed.
We did not get to the virtual activity this class session.
Notebooks were due. They will be returned next class so that notes can be continued.
SMALL GROUP/INDEPENDENT PRACTICE/DI
Students who complete work early should to to Edgenuity and work on the topics they received less than 70% from the last exam
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.
Peppered Moth Simulation
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Peppered Moth simulation
