ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How did life on earth begin?
RELEVANCE: When is a living thing alive?
NGSSS: SC.912.L.15.8; MAFS.912.N-Q.1.1; LAFS.910.SL.1.1
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to:
-Identify situations or conditions contributing to the origin of life on Earth.
-Compare different ideas about how organic molecules and cells first came about.
-Continue Journey To Mars Project.
BELL RINGER - EOC Review Evolution
VOCABULARY: abiogenesis, amino acid, biogenesis, chloroplast, endosymbiotic theory, eukaryotge, organelle, mitochondria, organic molecule, oxygen, prokaryote, protein
HOME LEARNING: study for exam
AGENDA
WHOLE GROUP
This lesson supports learning in other courses that involves making inferences and comparing and contrasting.
Students completed notes on Earth's Early History. The movie of the powerpoint can be found below.
To see the actual presentation, click on the link Earth's Early History
Students used the tablets to discover hypothesis about how evolution is supported by fossils. They also completed modules on Edgenuity on the tablets.
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:
-Why is there controversy over the Oparin theory of how life began on earth?
-What would be necessary to allow life to develop on a planet like Mercury, Venus or Mars?
EXIT STRATEGY:
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