Evolution Unit Bundle - NGSS Aligned

NGSS STANDARDS WITHIN THIS UNIT:

A. NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS HEREIN

DCI’s: LS4, LS3.B

Cross Cutting Concepts: Patterns, Cause and Effect, Scale, Proportion, and Quantity, Systems and System Models, Structure and Function, Stability and Change

Scientific and Engineering Practices:

Engaging in Arguments from Evidence, Analyzing and Interpreting Data, Developing and Using Models, Using Mathematical and Computational Thinking

"Evidence for Evolution: Stations Lab" explores six lines of evidence that support evolution by natural selection. Each line of evidence is its own station, and students use inquiry to complete the lab.

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"Antibiotic Resistance Lab" models the evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Students then simulate the evolution of a “superbug” infection

Get it here: Antibiotic Resistance Lab

"Speciation Activity" teachings students about several types of speciation, which has students model speciation in a frog population that is divided by a mountain range.

Get it here: Speciation Activty

"Thinking Like Darwin" is a a good intro activity when teaching evolution, requiring students to make connections, and draw generalizations, about organisms that live in three different locations in the world.

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"Hacking Cladograms" is a student-centered activity that walks students through how to interpret, and create a cladogram.

Get it here: Hacking Cladograms

B. SUGGESTED USES

Prior Knowledge: No specific prior knowledge is required, as this is designed to teach an entire unit on evolution to any student.

The materials are editable, allowing you to change/differentiate as necessary

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You will receive 11 products: This "Evolution Unit Bundle" is aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Everything you need to teach a unit on Evolution in one convenient download. This bundle includes:

Nine-Day unit plan (assuming 60-minute classes)

40-slide PowerPoint notes with "Bell Ringers", video links, diagrams and many images.

Introductory, Inquiry lab (Thinking Like Darwin)

Antibiotic Resistance Lab (Modeling Resistant Pathogens)

Speciation Activity (Student-centered, modeling lab)

“Hacking Cladograms” Activity

Evidence for Evolution Stations Lab

1 Review sheet options

1 Jeopardy-style review game

1 Claim Evidence Reasoning Argument Activity: Why Are Elephants Tusks Becoming Shorter?

1 Unit tests: 1 more advanced, and one less advanced, with answers included.

All resources come with answers included, and are editable.

By purchasing this bundle, you are saving more than 25%, compared to purchasing each resource separately.

This unit has all you need to teach a unit on Evolution for grades 7-12.

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The materials are editable to suit your needs.

All answers are included.

Topics covered herein:

Darwin’s Life, Evolution, Mutation, Natural Selection, four components of natural selection, common ancestry, history of life, microevolution and macroevolution, types of adaptations, antibiotic resistance, conjugation, multi-drug resistance, speciation, allopatric speciation, sympatric speciation, ring species, reproductive isolation, cladograms, recent common ancestry, lineages, constructing cladograms, character matrices, artificial selection, Lamarck’s hypothesis, Evolution as a theory, lines of evidence: fossils, homology, vestigial structures, embryology, molecular evidence. There are some more concepts included, that can be kept, or removed, in order to differentiate for higher/lower levels.

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