Campus:
Lesson Plans/Course: Biology
Date:
TEKS/Strand
Work Day
Instructor:
Strategies
(Description of student engaged
activity)
Objectives & Student
Expectations
Resources
Assessment
(quiz,test,project,
etc.)
Friday
Thursday
Wednesday
Tuesday
Monday
Day
Term: 2 Wk: 1
1A,2C,D,3E,F,7A, 1. Describe Linnaeus's role in developing the  Discuss DNA and natural selection
modern system of naming organisms.
B,8A,B,C
 Finish natural selection lab if
2. Summarize the scientific system for
needed
naming a species
 Complete bird beak lab
 Classification PPT
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Lab
PowerPoint
Notes
Ppt student
 Lab completion
 participation and
active discussion
1A,2C,D,3E,F,7A, 1. List the seven levels of biological
classification
B,8A,B,C
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PowerPoint
Quiz
worksheet
notes
 mastery of
vocabulary
 participation and
active discussion
 Finish PPT
 Turn in PPT fill in
 Discuss and reinforce analogies and
homologies
 Analogy and Homology wksht
2. Summarize the scientific system for
naming a species
3. List the seven levels of biological
classification
1A,2C,D,3E,F,7A, 1 .List the characteristics that biologists use  Discuss classification of organisms
to classify organisms.
B,8A,B,C
 Dicot Smilies Worksheet
2 .Relate analogous structures to convergent
 Dicot Parmishans Activity
evolution
3. Describe how biologists use cladograms to
determine evolutionary histories
1A,2C,D,3E,F,7A, 1. Summarize the biological species concept  Cladogram activity
2. Describe how biologists use cladograms to  Dicot Norms
B,8A,B,C
determine evolutionary histories
 Taxonomy Int Graphics wksht
MS Word – Lesson Plan Template for Grades 9 - 12
 Worksheets
 Notes
 PowerPoint
guide
 Participation
in groups
 Application of
knowledge to
dicots
 Graphics
 Dicot Sheets
 Participation
in groups
 Application of
knowledge to
lab situations