ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How do scientists think life began and continues to change on earth?
LEARNING TARGET: Identify condition that allowed life to form on Earth.
BENCHMARKS: SC.912.L.15.8
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to:
-Explain several scientific explanations for the origin of life (abiogenesis and biogenesis).
-Identify situations or conditions contributing to the origin of life on Earth.
-Compare different ideas about how organic molecules and cells first came about.
-Describe the experiments done to try and prove the origin of life on Earth.
BELL RINGER - Cartoon interpretation How Life Began
Interpret and explain the theory of how life began according to this cartoon.
VOCABULARY: biogenesis, abiogenesis, spontaneous generation, endosymbiotic theory, prokaryote, organelle, chloroplast, mitochondria, eukaryote, organic molecule, amino acid, protein
HOME LEARNING: Ecology Proposal
AGENDA
WHOLE GROUP
Students interpreted and shared their interpretations of the bell ringer comic.
The current topic was then discussed and reviewed as students shared their interpretations of the theories mentioned in the video seen last class.
Teams of students were given articles to read and interpret for:
Name of theory, main ideas/points of theory, scientific proof for theory, arguments against the theory, and their own opinions of the validity of the theory.
Students then shared their article with the class.
