Add these concepts to your Big Ideas (graphic notes) in your notebook supporting the question, 'How do species change over time and should humans intervene?
Rock and Fossil Record
LS4-1: Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout the history of life on Earth under the assumption that natural laws operate today as in the past.
Activities: Rock Cycle Game; BrainPop Rock Cycle,
Formative Assessment: Rock Layers Exit Slip, Fossil Record Practice Quiz
Summative Assessment: Fossil Record Test
Activities: Rock Cycle Game; BrainPop Rock Cycle,
Formative Assessment: Rock Layers Exit Slip, Fossil Record Practice Quiz
Summative Assessment: Fossil Record Test
Geologic Time Scale
ESS1-4: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence from rock strata for how the geologic time scale is used to organize Earth’s 4.6-billion-year-old history.
Activities:
Summative Assessment: Make Your Own Timeline
Activities:
- Radioactive Dating Game
- Surviving an Extinction Event Like the "Crater of Doom"
- BrainPop: Geologic Time
- Extinction
- Earth Viewer Simulation
Summative Assessment: Make Your Own Timeline
Evidence of Change Over Time
LS4-2: Apply scientific ideas to construct an explanation for the anatomical similarities and differences among modern organisms and between modern and fossil organisms to infer evolutionary relationships.
LS4-3: Analyze displays of pictorial data to compare patterns of similarities in the embryological development across multiple species to identify relationships not evident in the fully formed anatomy
Activities: Formative Assessment: Practice Quiz
Summative Assessment: Unit 2 Test
LS4-3: Analyze displays of pictorial data to compare patterns of similarities in the embryological development across multiple species to identify relationships not evident in the fully formed anatomy
Activities: Formative Assessment: Practice Quiz
Summative Assessment: Unit 2 Test
Natural Selection
LS4-4 Construct an explanation based on evidence that describes how genetic variations of traits in a population increase some individuals’ probability of surviving and reproducing in a specific environment
LS 4-6 Use mathematical representations to support explanations of how natural selection may lead to increases and decreases of specific traits in populations over time.
Activities:
Summative Assessment: Unit 2 Test
LS 4-6 Use mathematical representations to support explanations of how natural selection may lead to increases and decreases of specific traits in populations over time.
Activities:
- Butterflies in the classroom
- Paper Insect Simulation
- BrainPop: Natural Selection
- Meeting of the Minds Script
- Gizmos: Rainfall and Bird Beaks
- Darwin's Finches Video
- Scientists Working with Galapagos Finches
- Article: Adaptations and Natural Selection
Summative Assessment: Unit 2 Test
Heredity and Mutations
LS3-1: Develop and use a model to describe why structural changes to genes (mutations) located on chromosomes may affect proteins and may result in harmful, beneficial, or neutral effects to the structure and function of the organism.
Activities
Summative Assessment: Unit 2 Test
Activities
- Heredity Worksheet
- PTC Taste Test
- Genetic Wheel
- BrainPop: Heredity
- Bill Nye: Genes
Summative Assessment: Unit 2 Test
Human Intervention
LS4-5 Gather and synthesize information about the technologies that have changed the way humans influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms.
Activities:
Summative Assessment: Unit 2 Test
Activities:
- Model selective breeding in dogs
- Fruit and Veggie Tales
- Whiteboard model comparing Selective Breeding and Genetic Engineering
Summative Assessment: Unit 2 Test