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February252013.CAL
E-mail: tfreeman@pylusd.org
Reminder: You have three school days
School Website: www.esperanzahs.com
to make up work if you are absent.
Look for Freeman under “Teachers”
Reminder: Do all lab work in PENCIL
BIOLOGY CALENDAR
SEMESTER 2, WEEK 5
TOPIC: EVOLUTION
CA Standards Covered This Week:
Evolution is the result of genetic changes that occur in constantly changing environments. As a basis for understanding
this concept:
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Students know how natural selection determines the differential survival of groups of organisms.
Students know why natural selection acts on the phenotype rather than the genotype of the organism.
Students know how reproductive or geographic isolation affects speciation.
Students know a great diversity of species increases the chance that at least some organisms survive major
changes in the environment.
Students know how to analyze fossil evidence with regard to biological diversity, episodic speciation, and mass
extinction
Students know new mutations are constantly being generated in a gene pool.
Students know variation within a species increases the likelihood that at least some members of a species will
survive under changed environmental conditions.
Be able to analyze the locations, sequences, or time intervals that are characteristic of natural phenomena (relative ages
of rocks, succession of species in a ecosystem)
Monday Feb 25 LATE START – Faculty Meeting
Finish Ken Miller’s presentation of transitional fossils of the whale and human fossils
Class Activity: Evolution of Barbellus
Homework: Read pages 404-409 (The Process of Speciation)
Tuesday Feb 26
Finish Notes on Speciation
Class Activity: Evolution of Barbellus - Due Fri March 1
Wednesday Feb 27
Notes – How Fossils Form, Relative Dating, Radioactive Dating, Sample Problems with
Radioactive Dating
Start Half Life Lab – due Tues March 5
Homework: Read pages 416-420 (The Fossil Record, Relative Dating, Radioactive Dating)
Thursday Feb 28
Finish Half Life Lab – Due Tuesday March 5
Handout: Chordate Characteristics – we will work on this in class but you will have to do some at
home
Friday March 1
Class Activity Due: Evolution of Barbellus
Quiz: Notes, Videos, Homework, Class Labs and Activities (the past two weeks)
Know the evolutionary order of the major vertebrate groups: OVER >>>>>
Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles, Mammals, Birds (see Pacing Geol Time or your Timeline
instructions)
Notes: Key Characteristics of the Vertebrate Groups
Work on Chordate Characteristics Handout – Due Friday March 8