Common Core Curriculum Map 2012-2013
Common Core Unit Name: Evolution and Genetics
Unit Number: 7
Enduring Understanding:
8.L.4 Understand the evolution of organisms and landforms based on evidence, theories and processes that impact the Earth
over time.
Standard
Essential Questions
Pacing Guideline
8.L.4.1
8.L.4.1
Summarize the use of evidence drawn from
 How can changes in environmental
geology, fossils, and comparative anatomy
conditions affect the survival of
to form the basis for biological classification
individual organisms and entire
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systems and the theory of evolution
species?
 What is evolution and how can it be
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illustrated using the geologic time
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scale?
 What types of information can be
obtained from the geologic time scale?
 What evidence of evolution is found in
rocks, fossils, and ice cores?
 What is the Theory of Evolution?
 What is plate tectonics?
 What is the law of superposition?
 How do these scientific theories and
laws support the process of evolution?
 What are biological adaptations?
 What is biological evolution?
 What is geological evolution?
 How are these types of evolution related
to one another?
 What is extinction?
 How does the fossil record show
evidence of biological evolution?
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How does the fossil record provide
evidence of extinction?
How do scientists classify organisms?
How does a classification system allow
scientists to examine relationships
between various organisms?
What is taxonomy?
8.L.4.2
Explain the relationship between genetic
variation and an organism’s ability to adapt
to its environment.
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organism,
species
evolution
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8.L.4.2.
 What allows some organisms to survive
and have offspring and others to go
extinct?
 How can changes in environmental
conditions affect the survival of
individual organisms and entire
species?
 What is genetic diversity?
 What is DNA and how is it unique to
each individual (organism)?
 What is phenotypic variation?
 What morphological, biochemical and
behavioral features allow living
organisms to adapt to their
environment?
 How has evolutionary biology
demonstrated that adaptations arise
through selection acting on genetic
variation?
Essential Vocabulary
Plates
 Vertebrates
 Behavioral
Environment
 Invertebrates
 Heredity
sedimentary
 Taxonomy
 trait genetics
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Punnett square
Phenotype
Genotype
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rock
geological time
 Offspring
 Fertilization
scale
 biological
 DNA
 Purebred
evolution
 fossils, ice
 genetic variation
 gene, alleles
cores
 Adaptation
 phenotypic
 dominant allele
 Theory of
 Variation
variation
 recessive allele
Evolution
 natural selection
 Morphological
 hybrid,
 Plate Tectonics
 homologous
 Biochemical
probability
Theory
structures
 Law of
 analogous
Superposition
structures
 Extinct
Suggested Resources by Unit
Location of these resources
BrainPOP/BrainPOP Jr
www.brainpop.com/
 Human Evolution
 Extinction
 Scopes Monkey Trial
 Natural Selection
 Charles Darwin
 Genetic Mutations
 Genetics
 DNA
 Heredity
 Asexual Reproduction
 Classification
PH Science Explorer (Text and section summaries) – PH
Classroom
Science Explorer Grade 7 Chapters 14 & 15 Grade 8 Chapter 8
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Classroom
Chapter 8
PH Adapted notes – Grade 7 Chapters 14 & 15 Grade 8
Classroom
Chapter 8
ExamPro Question Bank – Grade 7 Chapters 14 & 15 Grade 8
Internet/school server
Chapter 8
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Homozygous
Heterozygous
Codominance
Meiosis
RNA
(messenger,
transfer)
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Prentice Hall Science Explorer On-line
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