Overview
Students will discover the environmental causes of an organism's evolutionary shift.
Objectives/Goals
- Synthesize, communicate, and evaluate claims that changes in environmental conditions will affect the survival strategies of populations.
- Construct an explanation based on evidence for how an adaptation leads to differential survival and reproduction of organisms.
- Analyze evidence to predict how changes in gene frequency within a population can alter its survival and reproduction.
- Evaluate evidence to predict how changes in environmental conditions will affect the fitness of a species.
- Synthesize, evaluate and communicate how selection pressures, adaptations can affect biodiversity on earth.
Procedure:
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Students will develop a timeline of an organism (plant, animal, fungi, bacteria, protist) of their choice.
- If you want more variety among kingdoms you can assign each learner what kingdom they need to choose their organism.
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Students will need to show:
- How the organism has evolved over time in at least three different periods.
- And give a description of what were the environmental conditions and factors during each time period that would cause that evolutionary shift.
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