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Tuesday, April 24th
EQ = How do the different structures in different organisms accomplish the same or similar function?
- Test Results - Questions and Answers.
- Do you owe Ms Schruer any assignments? I will not be grading any of them.
- New Unit Plan and Learning Targets.
- Develop Foundation Questions
- Ticket Out = A list of 10 quality foundation questions to guide your research.
April, 25th
EQ = How do the different structures in different organisms accomplish the same or similar function?
- Develop Foundation Questions. This is a slow process. Read what is mentioned in the clarification documents and in the learning target.
- Ticket Out = A word processed list of quality foundation questions to guide your research shared with me via google docs.
April 26th
EQ = How do the different structures in different organisms accomplish the same or similar function?
- Continue to Develop Foundation Questions and find the lab instructions and guides that you will nee for your dissections.
- I will respond to what you have sent me throughout the period.
- Ticket Out = A word processed list of quality foundation questions that has my approval to start doing your research with.
- If you have this early in the period - get your labs approved and start printing them if need be.
- Please bring your own laptop if you have one tomorrow.
Friday, April 27th
EQ = How do the different structures in different organisms accomplish the same or similar function?
- Continue to Develop Foundation Questions and find the lab instructions and guides that you will need for your dissections.
- I will respond to what you have sent me throughout the period.
- Get your labs approved and start printing them if need be.
- Dissections if you are Ready
Monday, May 1st - Friday, May 4th
EQ = How do the different structures in different organisms accomplish the same or similar function?
Suggested Research Sites:
- Foundation Questions should be established and approved by now.
- Continue to research answers to your foundation questions.
- When you are ready for a dissection, have the instructions and the purpose of your dissection approved by me. I simply want to know what you will be looking for and how it will apply to your overall project.
- Have a camera for your dissections to use in your project
- Plant Dissection Thursday - Friday.
Suggested Research Sites:
Friday, May 4
Progress check today. Individual teacher/student conferences.
Check out these unique ways of reproducing in the plant and _____ world. Can You guess what this weird looking alien might be?
Monday May, 7th - Friday May, 11th
Comparative anatomy research and dissections
Wednesday May, 23
Why Classify living things?
What's the best way to do so?
Agenda:
What's the best way to do so?
Agenda:
- Organize samples from the cabinet of death.
- Read and complete 17:1 Reading Essentials.
- Is your arrangement of the organisms more like the system of Aristotle or like that of Linnaeus? Why? Where did you go wrong? What did you do correctly?
- Why do we follow the Linnaeus model?
Tuesday May, 28 and Wednesday, May 29
EQ = How does an understanding of the modern day classification system and taxonomy enhance an understanding of the evolutionary relationships among living things?
- Read Chapter 23 from Bill Bryson's book A Short History of Nearly Everything.
- As you read, take direction from the reading guide as to what you should be focusing on and construct answers to the open-ended questions it posses.
- Be prepared on Wednesday to respond in open-discussion, blog or in written response.
More on Classification from Paul Andersen
Monday June 4th - Thursday, June 7th - What Darwin Never Knew
After / While Viewing this Video, Answer questions found on this document. Open the document and save it to your own drive for completion.
Exam
You should be able to provide written responses to questions concerning the following:
- What role doe the endocrine system serve and how do some of it's organs contribute to that function?
- Describe, in general, how immunity works by discussing the role of the various white blood cells and how they work.
- How do very different organisms achieve the same function from their systems in both simmillar and different ways. Hypothesize a genetic link based on what you watched in the Darwin video.
- Evolution is far more complex than Darwin ever imagined. What types of evidences currently being discovered are helping biologists understand "what Darwin never knew"? (Key words: genes, DNA, hox genes, switches, "stuff gene", decent with modification, transitional species,)
- Be able to hypothesize, think, and write about how any ideas from questions 1, 2, or 3 are related to question 4.