Honors Biology
Change Through Time
Unit Schedule
Date
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
Day 7
Goals and Activities
HW
Goal: Understand the major supports for the theory 1. Read. Pgs.
of evolution
279-282 &
Activities: Begin Notes on Change Through Time
289-292
2. SR 15-1
Goal: Compare/Contrast Natural & Artificial
1. Read
Selection
Pages283Activities: Continue Notes on Change Through Time
288
2. SR 15-2
Goal: Explain the history of life on the planet
3. Finish Act.
Reconstruct a fossil
#3 including
Activities: Calendar Activity – Act. #2
questions
Act. #3 – Fossil Reconstruction
1. Study for
fossil Quiz
Goal: Score well on fossil quiz
1. Complete Act.
Explain the following evidence for change:
#4
finches, embryos, vestigial structures,
2. SR 15-3
analogous/homologous structures, & chemical
3. Study for
compounds
“Other
Activities: Fossil Quiz
Evidence
Act. #4 – Evidence for change through
Quiz”
Time
Goal: Score well on “Other Evidence” Quiz
1. Finish the
Describe how Populations Change through
H-W problems
allele Frequencies
started in class
Activities: “Other Evidence” Quiz
2. Read pgs.
Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium notes
299-302
Goal: Understand H-W Equilibrium
1. Finish
Activities: Review H-W from previous day
Problem set 1
Begin Problem Set 1
2. Read pgs.
303-308
Goal: Understand H-W Equilibrium
1. Finish
Describe different types of Isolation
Problem set 2
Activities: Review H-W from previous day
2. Read pgs
Begin Problem Set 2
309-312
Honors Biology
Change Through Time
Unit Schedule
Date
Day 8
Day 9
Day 10
Day 11
Day 12
Day 13
Day 14
Goals and Activities
HW
Goal: Understand H-W Equilibrium
Describe different types of Isolation
Activities: Review H-W from previous day
Begin Problem Set 3
Goal: Understand H-W Equilibrium
Describe different types of Isolation
Activities: Review SR 16-3
Review H-W from previous day
Begin Problem Set #4
Goal: Score well on H-W Quiz
Measure & graph a variation within a
Population
Interpret survival significance of variations
Activities: H-W Quiz
Act. #5 – Natural Variation
Goal: Identify competitors in given situations
Describe how competition affects survival
Activities: Act. #6 – Stooping & Squatting
Act. #7 – Competition Scenarios
Goal: Explain the following adaptations:
convergence, camouflage, divergence
List factors that can cause extinction should a
species fail to adapt
Activities: Discuss Act. #7
Act. #8 – Adaptations Slide Show
Goal: Score well on Mechanism for Change Quiz
Identify factors that result in speciation
Activities: Mechanism for Change Quiz
Act. #10 – Speciation
Act. #11 – Utopian Islands
Goal: Compare and Contrast theories of
development of life on Earth
Activities: Theories Video
Act. #12 – Theories of Evolution
1. Finish
Problem Set
3
2. SR 16-3
1. Finish
Problem set 4
2. Study for
H-W quiz
1. Complete Act.
#5
2. Review pgs
306-208
1. Complete Act.
#7
1. Study for
Mechanism
for change
quiz
1. Finish Act.
#11
1. Review pgs.
283-288
Honors Biology
Change Through Time
Unit Schedule
Date
Day 15
Day 16
Day 17
Goals and Activities
Goal: Identify special adaptations of primates
including humans
Activities: Act. #13 – Primates
Human Adaptations Demonstration
Goal: Prepare for Test
Activities: SR 17-2 & 17-3
Activity #14
Goal: Score well on Test
Activities: Change Through Time Test
HW
1. Read pgs.
319-330
2. SR 17-1
3. BRING BOOK
1. Study for
test
2. Complete 172. 17-3, and
Act. #14
3. Work on
Vocab for
next unit
Vocabulary (67)
Biogenesis, spontaneous generation, isotope, radioactive decay, half life,
radioactive dating, radioactive isotope, chemosynthesis, endosymbiosis,
cyanobacteria, ozone, absolute age, extinct, mass extinction, sediment,
biogeography, fossil, stratum, mold (of fossil), cast (of fossil), law of
superposition, relative age, acquired trait, adaptive advantage, natural
selection, fitness, population, adaptive radiation, co-evolution, convergent
evolution, homologous structure, analogous structure, divergent evolution,
vestigial structure, artificial selection, allele frequency, gene pool,
population genetics, bell curve, Hardy-Weinberg Genetic Equilibrium,
directional selection, emigration, genetic drift, gene flow, immigration,
stabilizing selection, disruptive selection, biological species concept,
punctuated equilibrium, reproduction isolation, speciation, geographic
isolation, post-zygotic isolation, pre-zygotic isolation, anthropoid primate,
great ape, primate, bipedalism, hominid, prosimian, opposable thumb,
prehensile, Australopithecine, “Lucy”, quadrapedal, multi-regional
hypothesis, recent African origin hypothesis