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Competency
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Activities
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Assessment |
| 1. Discuss
how the variations of organisms within a species and diversity among
species increases the likelihood that at least some organisms will
survive the face of large changes in the environment. |
- Vocabulary Handout 1
- Reading Roadmap 1
- Adaptations worksheet
- Reading Roadmap 2
- Clam Activity
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- Checkpoint Quiz 1
- Checkpoint Quiz 2
- Post-Test
- Analysis Questions
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| 2. Analyze
the evidence for the nature and rate of evolution that can be found
in anatomical and molecular characteristics of organisms and in the
fossil record. |
- Vocabulary Houndout 1
- Rock Strata Activity
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- Analysis Questions
- Post-Test
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| 3. Conduct
and analyze the results of a lab that provides information that the
process of natural selection provides that some heritable variations
arise from mutation and recombination gives individuals within a species
some advantage over others for survival. |
- Reading Roadmap
- Lab: Natural Selection
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- Analysis Paragraph
- Post-Test
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| 4. Explain
how evolution does not proceed at the same rate in all organisms;
nor does it progress in some set direction. |
- Reading Roadmap 1.2
- Rock Strata Activity
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- Analysis Questions
- Post-Test
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| 5. Classify
organisms into hierarchial groups and subgroups, based on their structural
similarities and reflect about the possible evolutionary relationships. |
- Vocabulary Handout 1
- Classification Packet
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- Checkpoint Quiz
- Post-Test
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| 6. Determine
the degree of kinship among organisms based on similarities in DNA
and protein structure. |
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- Checkpoint Quiz
- Post-Test
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| 7. Predict
the pattern of inheritance for traits using the principals of Mendelian
genetics. |
- Vocabulary Handout 1
- Reading Roadmap 1 & 2
- Punnett Square Activity
- Lab: Predicting Genetics
- Pedigree Activity
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- Checkpoint quizzes 1 & 2
- Post-Test
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| 8. Analyze
how social and economic forces, such as patent laws, the federal budget
regulations, media attention and economic competition can influence
the direction of progress for science and technology. |
- Genetic disorder research
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- Analysis questions on genetic research
- Post-Test
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| 9. Evaluate
how DNA indirectly controls what cells do and when they do it by encoding
information directing the cell's synthesis of protein molecules. |
- Vocabulary Handout 1
- DNA Internet Activity
- Activity: "What will the Baby Look Like?"
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- Analysis questions over the lab
- Checkpoint Quiz 2
- Post-Test
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| 10. Finish
the constrution of DNA segments and explain how the hereditary information
is contained within the various combinations of the four subunits
that encode the DNA molecule. |
- Vocabulary Handout 1
- DNA Internet Activity
- Lab: Candy DNA Replication
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- Analysis qustions over lab
- Checkpoint Quiz 1
- Post-Test
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| 11. Do error
analysis of DNA subunits, and explain how these coding errors (mutations)
can occur randomly during replication and can also be caused by heat
and radiation. |
- Vocabulary Handout 1
- Mutations Activity
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| 12. Construct
and explain characteristics of an organism productd through either
asexual or sexual reproduction when given the parent DNA. |
- Vocabulary Handout 1
- Mitosis & Meiosis
- Literacy Reading
- "Meibops" Activity
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- Analysis questions from "Meibop" activity
- Checkpoint Quiz 3
- Post-Test
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| 13. Create
a model of a cell representing the organelles responsible for its
survival and explain how these structures provide for chemical synthesis,
energy conversion and material transport |
- Cell Analogy Model
- Nutrition Article
- Labs: Use of microscope
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- Lab Practical
- Cell Analogy Explanation Paper
- Analysis Questions
- Post-Test
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| 14. Analyze
how optimum conditions are maintained in an organism as a result of
the special functions performed at the cellular level. |
- Cell "City Tour" Activity
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- Analysis Questions
- Post-Test
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