Evolution


 * **DATE** || **AGENDA** || **HOMEWORK** ||
 * Thurs March 6th (B)

Fri March 7th (A) Mon || 1. Continue Lecture #1 Charles Darwin & Natural Selection 2. Evolution Video Clip (Hours 1,3,5,7)

PBS Video Clip 'Isn't Evolution Just a Theory?' []

3) Adaptations Lab || __**Homework**__ ||
 * March 10 (B)

Tues Mar 11th (A) || 1) Natural Selection & Adaptation video (Rock Pocket Mouse) 10 minutes [|CLICK HERE to view HHMI Natural Selection & Adaptation (Rock Pocket Mouse)]

2.) Peppered Moth Webquest & Graphing Activity [|CLICK HERE for link to Peppered Moth Activity] 3) Classwork/ HW: Mutations Packet || __**Homework**__ Finish Mutation & Natural Selection packet for next time if you did not in class. ||
 * Wed 12th (B)

Thurs Mar 13th (A) || 1. Video-Human Selection and Adaptation (Malaria & Sickle Cell Anemia) 14 minutes [|Click HERE to view The Making of the Fittest] 2. Stick Bug Survival Lab 3. Classwork- Answer questions 1-17 on Unit 7 Study Guide || **__Homework__** Unit 7 Study Guide (1-17; use Lecture #1 to find answers) ||
 * Mon Mar 17th (B)

Tues Mar 18th (A) || 1.) Video- Evolving Switches, Evolving Bodies [|Click HERE to view Evolving Switches, Evolving Bodies]

[|Speciation Video (8 minutes) Birds of Paradise]

2) Lecture #2 (Speciation) 3) Activity: Utopian Islands (Hour 5 did not get to this, will do in class next time) || __**Homework**__ Work on Unit 7 Study Guide (use Lect #2) #18-31 ||
 * Wed Mar 19th (B)

Thurs 20th (A) || 1. HHMI The Origin of Species: The Beak of the Finch (15 min) [|Click HERE to watch HHMI The Beak of the Finch] 2. Finish Lecture #2 (Rates of Evolution & Extinction) (Hour 5 will do Utopian Island activity first) 3. PBS Documentary- Extinction [|PBS Extinction! documentary] HHMI The Day the Mesozoic Died (33 min) [|Click HERE to view HHMI The Day the Mesozoic Died] || **__Homework__** Complete Unit 7 Study Guide questions 18-31 (Lecture #2) || 2. a) Lab- Biochemical Evidence of Evolution (Hour 5 only) (Finish analysis, conclusion, limitaitons and questions for HW)
 * Mon Mar 31st (B) || 1. Lecture #3 Evidence of Evolution (B1 will do this 4.2)

b) Classwork (Hour 7) Work on Unit 7 Study Guide, organize binders. || __**Homework**__ Finish Study Guide Questions (due next time) and prepare for Unit 7 Exam!

Finish Biochemical Evidence of Evolution Lab (Hour 5 only)

Get binder ready for check (due the day of the exam) || Complete study guide questions 1-31. || Evolution Lab, organizing binder) Hour 5 only b) Video- Becoming Human 51 minutes (Hour 7 only) [|Click HERE to view Becoming Human Part I(NOVA)] 2. Go over answers to Unit 7 Study Guide || **__Homework__** || 2) Evolution of the Whale video clip (Hour 2 only) 3) Finish Part 3 of study guide and check in by end of the hour (Hour 2)
 * Tues Apr 1st (A) || ACT || **__Homework__**
 * Wed Apr 2nd (B) || 1. a) Independent work (finishing study guide, Biochemical Evidence of
 * Thurs Apr 3rd (A) || 1) Lecture #3 Evidence of Evolution (Hours 2 & 3)

B2: We will go over the answers to the study guide in class tomorrow. || **__Homework__** ||
 * Fri Apr 4th (B)

Mon Apr 7th (A) || 1) Unit 7 Exam (EVOLUTION) 35 min 2) Lecture #1 Ecological Heirarchy & Ecosystem Formation Classwork/ HW: EOC Review Booklet Units 1-3 (#1-18) || **__Homework__** EOC Review Booklet Units 1-3 (#1-18) || = **EXTRA CREDIT** =

Go see 'Titans of the Ice Age' at the STL Science Center []

4/4: Tickets are $5 with a student ID. Write me a 1 pg 'what you learned, what you thought about it, how it relates to class' and staple that to your ticket stub. Due by your exam date.

= ** Hominid Extra Credit assignment ** = = **(Worth 10 points E.C.) (DUE EXAM DAY)** = = **Using resources found at the __becominghuman.org__, choose one of the projects below.** =

1. Choose four hominid species and create a chart that compares the four species in relation to age, diet, range, and other information. Include sketches of the skull. (The hominid profile section will help you here)

2. Create a timeline of 10 important events or discoveries in paleoanthropology. Discuss the prevailing views of the time and how each of these new discoveries or conclusions lead to a dramatic change in how scientists later viewed human evolution.

3. Create a cladogram (a family tree) of the hominid species. Use branches to show the possible relationships of the different species. =__**Supplemental Resources**__= [|Global Warming induced hybridization PDF (Nature)]

[|Smithsonian- Brown Polar Bears, Beluga-Narwhals & other Hybrids brought to you by Global Warming article]

=__Videos about Evolution that you might find interesting__= __[|Becoming Human Part I]__

[|Becoming Human Part II: Birth of Humanity] Great Video!

[|Becoming Human Part III: Last Human Standing] Another great video!

[|PBS Documentary 'Alien From Earth'] This documentary is about the 'Hobbit like' hominds discovered recently which caused scientists to question our understanding of human evolution.

[|PBS Video clip about T. Rex DNA!]

[|Bill Nye (Greatest Discoveries in Science): The Origin & Evolution of Life] =__**Simulations/ Interactive websites involving topics we have covered this unit**__=

[|Comparing Skeleton's Interactive]

[|What killed the Dinosaurs? Activity] =__**Articles you can use for your Extra Credit Reports (due on Exam day)**__=

[|MSNBS Article on the 6th Mass Extinction]

[|Science Daily article about the new evidence on the land-animal debut]

[|Science Daily Article explaining the parallel evoultion that lead to modern marsupial & placental mammals]

=__**Web Resources**__= []

[|NOVA website with tons of great evolution information!]

=== **[]**: Great website about Human Evolution. It has an award winning documentary series (see below) that you catch watch, an interactive time-line, news articles about recent discoveries in human evolution, as well as several games and activities.===