Students match organisms based on anatomic similarities and share reasoning with class.
Students follow the voyage of the Beagle and investigate Darwin’s observations.
Students compare the whales and sharks to identify anatomical similarities and differences and then construct a phylogenetic tree showing relationships among organisms.
Students read about comparative anatomy and answer analysis questions and complete a homologous structures coloring activity.
Students work in groups to answer analysis questions on different examples of evolution and transitional fossils.
Students compose a letter comparing the evolutionary relationships between whales, humans and sharks.
Students may complete a formative assessment.
Students investigate how human features are related to other organisms using video clips from PBS Learning.
In this cycle, students consider how the fossil record and studies of modern organism structures are used to figure out how organisms are related to one another, both past and present.
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