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.
-take an assessment on natural selection.
BELL RINGER - NA
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: notebook update
AGENDA
WHOLE GROUP
We reviewed class correlations and tie-ins to focus calendar.
Students were given a short study period prior to the beginning of the exam to study and ask clarifying questions.
SMALL GROUP/INDEPENDENT PRACTICE/DI
Students who complete work early should go 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.
