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Lesson
Info sheet
Discuss class expectations
Set up brine shrimp lab,
managing data
Hand out textbooks
HW: variables, brine shrimp lab
BR: practice test questions
AP standards – introduce big
ideas
Discuss lab – natural history of
brine shrimp, hypothesis, what
counts as a trial? Experimental
design diagram.
Check number hatched in each
HW: read ch.1 beak of the finch,
lab summary
BR: what kind of graph?
Data – calculating standard
deviation, practice problem
Lab: last day count, math,
graphing
HW: read ch.1 BOF, lab
summary
Lab summary hand in
BR: population density
questions
Studying populations
Beak of the finch small group
discussion, discuss as class – tie
into science as a process
Vocab: big idea 1, prior
knowledge
BR: graph, data questions
Review exponential vs logistic
growth, carrying capacity,
density-dependent vs densityindependent factors
Evolution mechanics: variation,
selection, reproduction. Works
on phenotypes directly,
indirectly works on genotypes
and ultimately the gene pool
Introduction to H-W equilibrium
Old AP Lab 8
HW: H-W probs 1-6 from lab
Objectives
SP 2.1 The student can justify
the selection of a mathematical
routine to solve problems
SP 2.2 The student can apply
mathematical routines to
quantities that describe natural
phenomena.
LO 1.1 The student is able to
convert a data set from a table
of numbers that reflect a
change in the genetic makeup
of a population over time and to
apply mathematical methods
and conceptual understandings
to investigate the cause(s) and
effect(s) of this change.
LO 1.3 The student is able to
apply mathematical methods to
data from a real or simulated
population to predict what will
happen to the population in the
future.
LO 1.4 The student is able to
evaluate data-based evidence
that describes evolutionary
changes in the genetic makeup
of a population over time.
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BR: effects of selection events
Review directional, stabilizing
and disruptional selection
Hardy-Weinberg equation
Check h-w problems
Finish lab