Thematic Interdisciplinary Unit
We begin the journey of exploring evolution through Language Arts: Knowledge Ratings Scale, Pre-Evolution Survey, & Evolutionary Jeopardy & Wheel of Fortune.
What were the social, religious, and political challenges confronting evolutionary theorists? Why is Alfred Wallace called the forgotten man of evolutionary theory?
What are the differences between Lamarck's, Darwin's, and Wallace's theory of evolutuion?
Are there any similarities, connections between the three theorist? Let's compare and contrast and connect the theorists with thier theories.
How can H.G. Wells Sci-Fi movie, "The Time Machine" help us understand the social impact of evolution? Let's watch, learn, discuss, and write using the SPAWN strategy to express our ideas, arguments, & conclusions.
The challenge of discussing the diverse ideas of evolution using the value lines discussion debate format, let's express what we've learned in these previous four lessons.
We've explored natural selecetion and how variation of species affects evolution, now we will explore the diverse interaction of various species and their evolutionary affect.
What is our social responsibility in addressing the Aids epidemic in Africa?
We will engage in an Paidea seminar to address, discover, and construct viable solutions to the African Aids epidemic.
Making genetic predictions utilizing Punnet squares to organize and visualize the genotype and phenotypes of potential offspring.
Utilizing interactive pea soup to construct Punnet Squares to predict Mendelian Genetic inheritance ratios. This lesson is the bridgeway into the Hardy-Weinberg Principle.
Using Reader Theater-role playing to learn, develop, and utilize, "The Hardy-Weinberg Principle of Eqilibrium" to predict phenotypic and genotypic changes in population