Warm-Up • • • • Write a reminder about the test – have it stamped! Update your Table of Contents for today! Don’t forget to submit/turn your cartoon in today! Get your Milk Lab Guide out from last class so I can check your Reflection Questions & we can go over them! • Get a whiteboard, marker & eraser! Date Session # 1/27 & 1/28 8 Activity Evolution Review Station Answer Sheet Page # 16 “THE BIG QUESTIONS” What is evolution? How does biological evolution happen? What is the evidence to support biological evolution? What do we do with this evidence? Fact or Crap? • If you believe that the information given on the slide is truthful & accurate simply write FACT on your whiteboard • If you believe that the information given on the slide is NOT accurate information write CRAP on your whiteboard, AND THEN WRITE A CORRECT STATEMENT! Fact or Crap? • Darwin’s 4 Principles of Natural Selection are: –Overproduction –Variation –Mutation –Selection Fact or Crap? • It is the genotype that is ultimately responsible for an organism’s ability to survive Fact or Crap? • A cheetah preying on the weakest member of the antelope herd is an example of Darwin’s idea of Survival of the Fittest Fact or Crap? • A good example of evolution would be the leaves on the trees changing every season Fact or Crap? • Most living things leave a fossil behind for scientists to use as evidence of evolution Fact or Crap? • Phenotype is referring to an organism’s DNA Fact or Crap? • Humans evolved from chimpanzees or apes Fact or Crap? • Similar development of embryos in different species is evidence of a common ancestor at some point in the past Fact or Crap? • Any two animals can mate, that’s how a new species is created Fact or Crap? • All evolution is a natural occurrence Fact or Crap? • Biological classification can also be referred to as taxonomy Fact or Crap? • Speciation is caused by genetic mutations Homologous, Analogous or Vestigial? • Homologous: – same structure, different function – evidence of a common ancestor • Analogous: - different structure, same function - evidence of common environmental demands • Vestigial: – remnants of ancestor, no longer useful Homologous, Analogous or Vestigial? Homologous, Analogous or Vestigial? skeleton made of cartilage skeleton made of bone use gills to get oxygen from the water in which they swim go to the surface and breathe atmospheric air in through their blowholes don't nurse their young do nurse their young don't have hair do have hair — they are born with hair around their "noses" Homologous, Analogous or Vestigial? • Wisdom Teeth – remnants of a longer jaw that held more teeth from a “chewier” diet Homologous, Analogous or Vestigial? Homologous, Analogous or Vestigial? • Remnants of a 3rd eyelid Evolutionary Trees • What can an evolutionary tree show us? Station Review • We will complete Station 1 together – it is a video station • After the video, visit each of the other stations and write the answers to each of the questions your Evolution Review Station Answer Sheet that will be taped into page 16 after it has been checked off as a grade! Station 1: Salamander Video • Salamander Study in California • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCoEiLOV8jc Stations 2-8: • Get as much as you can done today! • Make sure your answer sheet is taped into page 16 so that you don’t lose it! • You will have time to finish the stations next class, but you MUST show them to me for a grade by the end of next class! Warm-Up • • • • Write a reminder about the test – have it stamped! Update your Table of Contents for today! Complete the Warm-Up on Phenotypes & Genotypes! Find your Evolution Review Station Answer Sheet from last class…if you lost it you need a new sheet! Date Session # 1/29 & 1/30 9 Activity Page # Evolution Review Station Answer Sheet (already entered from last class) 16 Reviewing Genotypes & Phenotypes Warm-up 17 Warm-Up • The warm-up is a review of phenotype & genotype…what is the connection between them? Agenda For Today 1) Complete Evolution Review Stations – be sure to show me your completed sheet for a grade – INFORMAL GRADE! 2) Understanding Evolution WebQuest – ideally it will be turned in to the basket before the end of class for a grade, but if you don’t finish it becomes homework – FORMAL GRADE! 2) If you finish both you can create 5 realistic multiple choice test questions WITH AN ANSWER KEY for 5 extra credit points… THIS OPTION MUST BE TURNED IN BY NEXT CLASS BEFORE THE TEST! HOMEWORK: Study For Your Test! • A-day: Tuesday, Feb. 3rd • B-day: Monday, Feb. 2nd • Study all of your notes, PowerPoints on the wiki page, any labs or class activities & your Evolution Quiz! • Use the website from the WebQuest as a study guide if you need additional review or clarification on specific topics! Warm-Up • Write your homework – leave it to be stamped! • Update your Table of Contents for today! • Put your Understanding Evolution WebQuest in the basket! • You will need some type of technology to review…your phone is fine, Chromebook if you don’t have anything else! Date Session # 2/2 & 2/3 10 Activity Understanding Evolution WebQuest (tape in after it is handed back with a grade) Page # 18 Kahoot! • Go to Kahoot.it • Type in the code for the game! After the Test • Put your test in the basket! • Start a new Table of Contents for our “Biology Unit” • Log on to my wiki page and open the “Intro to Biology” PowerPoint under 3rd quarter, today’s date and complete the note guide. – This information should be review so I don’t want to spend a lot of class time on it, but you are responsible for knowing it! I will be checking that you completed these notes for a grade, so they need to be completed by next class!