1. Unit F: Evolution Learning Goals
Activity Content Standard Performance
Expectations
Learning Goals
Activity 89: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?
Activity 90: Figuring Out Fossils
Activity 94: A Meeting of Minds
Activity 95: Hiding in the Background
Activity 96: Battling Beaks
Activity 97: Origins of Species
Activity 99: A Whale of a Tale
Activity 100: DNA – The Evidence Within
LS3A:The scientific theoryofevolution underlies
the study of biology and explains both the
diversityof life on Earth and similarities of all
organismsat the chemical, cellular, and molecular
level. Evolutionis supported by multiple forms of
scientific evidence.
Explain and
provideevidenceof how
biological
evolutionaccounts for the
diversityof specieson
Earth today.
I I can explain using
evidence how
biological evolution
accounts for the
diversity of species on
Earth today.
Activity 89: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?
Activity 94: A Meeting of Minds
Activity 95: Hiding in the Background
Activity 96: Battling Beaks
Activity 97: Origins of Species
LS3E: Adaptationsare physical or behavioral
changes that are inherited and enhance the ability
of an organismto survive and reproduce in a
particular environment.
Give an example of a plant
or animal adaptationthat
would confer a survival and
reproductive advantage
during a given
environmentalchange.
I can give examples of
plant and animal
adaptations that
increase the success of
an organism during an
environmental
change.
Activity 90: Figuring Out Fossils
Activity 94: A Meeting of Minds
Activity 97: Origins of Species
Activity 99: A Whale of a Tale
LS3G: Evidencefor evolutionincludes similarities
among anatomical and cell structures, and
patternsof development make it possible to infer
degree of relatedness among organisms.
Infer the degree of
relatedness of two species,
given diagrams of
anatomicalfeatures of the
two species(e.g., chicken
wing, whale flipper, human
hand, bee leg).
I can infer how closely
related two species are
based on their
anatomicalfeatures
LEARNING GOALS:
I can explain using evidence how biological evolution accounts for the diversity of species on Earth today.
I can give examples of plant and animal adaptations that increase the success of an organism during an environmental change.
I can infer how closely related two species are based on their anatomicalfeatures