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SBI 3U: EVOLUTION

 

OVERALL EXPECTATIONS:

C1 - Analyse the economic and environmental advantages and disadvantages of an artifical selection technology, and evaluate the impact of environmental changes on natural selection and endangered species

 

C2 - Investigage evolutionary processes, and analyse scientific evidence that supports the theory of evolution

 

C3 - Demonstrate an understanding of the theory of evolution, the evidence that supports it, and some of the mechanisms by which it occurs

MONDAY APRIL 18 - INTRO/THEORISTS OF EVOLUTION

In-Class:

1) Brainstorm - What does evolution mean?

2) Video - What is Evolution?

3) Assignment - Investigating Theorists of Evolution

 

Homework:

1) Complete assignment - theorists/evolution

 

TUESDAY APRIL 19 - MUTATIONS & EVOLUTION

In-Class:

1) Took up Assignment - Theorists/evolution

2) Note - Mutations & Evolution

3) WS - Examining Tuberculosis

    Video - How the Body Reacts to TB

 

Homework:

1) Complete - WS: Examining TB

 

WEDNESDAY APRIL 20 - MUTATIONS & SELECTION

In-Class:

1) Complete GIZMO - Evolutions, Mutations & Selection

 

Homework:

1) Complete GIZMO if not done in class

 

THURSDAY APRIL 21 - NATURAL SELECTION

In-Class:

1) Handed in WS - Examining Tuberculosis

2) Pop Quiz - on GIZMO

3) Note - Darwin & Natural Selection

4) WS - Darwin's struggle

5) Handed back Genetics Unit test

 

Homework:

1) Complete WS - Darwin's struggle

 

FRIDAY APRIL 22 - NATURAL SELECTION ACTIVITY

In-Class:

1) Took up WS - Darwin's strugle

2) Complete Activity - Peppered moths - due Tuesday April 26

 

Homework:

1) Complete Lab hypothesis, observations table, questions

2) Study for Quiz on Monday April 25

 

 

 

MONDAY APRIL 25- GENOTYPIC/ALLELIC FREQUENCIES

In-Class:

1) Evolution Quiz 1

    From all notes/assigments/GIZMOS from:

    i) April 18 - theorists of evolution

   ii) April 19 - Mutations & evolution

  iii) April 20 - Mutations & selection GIZMO

  iv) April 21 - Natural Selection

2) Note - Calculating Genotypic & Alleleic Frequencies

3) WS - Practice Calculations

4) Assignment - China's Panda's Face an Uncertain Future - due Friday April 29

 

Homework:

1) Complete WS - Practice Calculations

2) Peppered Moth Lab - due tomorrow

 

TUESDAY APRIL 26 - HW PRINCIPLE

In-Class:

1) Peppered Moth Lab due! (submit all pages, stapled together)

2) Note - Hardy -Weinberg Principle

3) GIZMO - HW Principle

 

Homework:

1) Complete Gizmo

 

WEDNESDAY APRIL 27- MICROEVOLUTION:             A- NATURAL SELECTION

          B- GENETIC DRIFT

          C-GENE FLOW

In-Class:

1) Handed back Evol Quiz 1

2) Review - HW Principle

3) Practice - HW Problem

4) Note - Genetic Drift

 

Homework:

1) Complete WS - Examining Random Change (Genetic Drift)

2) Complete Learning Checkpoint 2

 

THURSDAY APRIL 28 - MICROEVOLUTION

        A - TYPES OF NATURAL SELECTION

        D -  SEXUAL SELECTION

In-Class:

1) Took up/Posted WS - Genetic Drift

2) Note - Types of Selection & Sexual Selection

    Video - Survival of the Sexiest

3) WS - Natural Selection & Types of Selection

 

Homework:

1) WS - Natural Selection & Types of Selection

 

FRIDAY APRIL 29 - BREEDING BUNNIES 

In-Class:

1) Assignment - China's Panda's Face Uncertain Future due

2) Lab - Breeding Bunnies!

3) Hand back - Peppered Moth Lab

 

Homework:

1) Finish Breeding Bunnies Questions

2) Study for Quiz 2

 

 

 

MONDAY MAY 2- MICROEVOLUTION

             E - ARTIFICIAL SELECTION

In-Class:

1) Evolution Quiz 2

    From all notes/assignments/GIZMOs from:

    i) April 25 - Genotypic/Allelic Frequencies

   ii) April 26 - HW Principle & GIZMO

  iii) April 27 - Microevolution (NS, GD, GF)

  iv) April 28 - Microevolution (types of selection)

2) Homework - WS Types of Selection - took up/posted answers

3) Note - Artificial Selection

4) WS - Investigate Artificial Selection

 

Homework:

1) Complete WS - Investigate Artificial Selection (need internet)

 

TUESDAY MAY 3 - MACROEVOLUTION: SPECIATION

In-Class:

1) Took up homework - WS: Artifical Selection

2) Note - Speciation

    Video - Types of Speciation

3) WS - Speciation (need photocopied text to help)

 

Homework:

1) Complete WS - Speciation

 

WEDNESDAY MAY 4- TEACHER ABSENT

In-Class:

1) Complete WS - Patterns of Evolution

2) Study for Evolution Unit Test

 

THURSDAY MAY 5- TEACHER ABSENT

In-Class:

1) Took up - Speciation

2) Study for Evolution Unit Test

 

Homework:

1) Complete Evolution Unit Review

 

FRIDAY MAY 6 -PATTERNS IN EVOLUTION

In-Class:

1) Note - Patterns in Evolution

2) Took up WS - Patterns of Evolution

3) Time to study

 

Homework:

1) STUDY for Unit Test!!

 

MONDAY MAY 9 - EVOLUTION UNIT TEST

 

 

 

 

 

 

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