Evolving Life
Lesson 2: The Day the Mesozoic Died, p.33-34
Lesson 3: My Life Timeline, p.35-36
Lesson 4: Visual Stories
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Lesson 5: Fossil Types and Formation
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Lesson 6: Fossil Forensics
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Lesson 7: The Fossil Record
After excavating your cast fossil, document what was found by comparing and contrasting fossil characteristics with others in class.
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Lesson 8: The Big Picture of Life on Earth
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Using the Fossil Record from your notes, sort the evolutionary events in order on a piece of 11 x 14 construction paper.
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Lesson 9: Citing Sources
An assignment can be found on our Google Classroom page.
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Lesson 10-12: Front Page News
Make a newspaper article on one of the following 6 major events in evolutionary history:
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Each final project must have:
- A catchy newspaper headline
- An image or drawing that captures the event
- A short article (~5-10 sentences) that contains the following:
- A brief summary of the evolutionary event
- The benefit of the evolutionary change
- An explanation of scientific proof (let students know they will likely find references to evidence in the fossil record)
- What the evolutionary event means for the future of life on Earth
- Source citations
Lesson 13: Breaking News - Walk around and evaluate the articles for all 6 events
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Lesson 14: Finding Patterns in Evolution
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Lesson 15: Feathered Friends
Animals that look similar on the outside may not look the same on the inside.
How do we know these two animals are the same or different?
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"The mass extinction that erased most dinosaurs 65 million years ago left a few bird lineages unscathed. Within only 15 million years all of our familiar bird groups were flourishing. These extraordinary living dinosaurs provide a vivid link to the ancient past."
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Lesson 16: What Makes a Mammal?
Why did each mammal evolve to have different shapes and sizes of bones? What are they used for?
Is there any bone that doesn’t seem to be used by a species? How do these structures that are similar in various species support the concept of evolution?
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Lesson 17: Evolutionary Game of Telephone
Different Animals can look the same at one point of their development.
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Lesson 18-19: Embryonic Creature Features
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Creature Feature Creations
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Lesson 20: Introduction to Mass Extinctions
Lessons 21 + 22: Research on the 5 Mass Extinctions
Articles
Research Worksheet
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Lessons 23-24: Mass Extinctions Timeline
Lesson 24: Surviving the Next Mass Extinction
INB p. 47-48: Mass Extinction Causes |
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Lessons 25-28: Visual Stories to Solve the Next Mass Extinction
Storyboarding
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Visual Stories:
Use the free version of the website below by signing in with your Google account and creating 6 picture at a time.
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