3. Student Learning Map

  • Topic:History of Life/Change Through Time
  • Subject(s):Science
  • Days:10
  • Grade(s):10
Key Learning: All organisms have adaptations,inherited characteristics, that enhance their ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment. Organisms are always changing.
Unit Essential Question(s):
 
 
How have organisms changed during your life time?
   
Concept: Geologic Time Scale
Concept: Origin of Life Theories
Concept: Natural Selection
Lesson Essential Question(s):

Why is the Geologic time scale divided into eras rather that months or years? (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):

Compare and contrast modern theories of the origin of life. (A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How do structural and physiological adaptation of organisms relate to natural selection? (A)
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Vocabulary Report

  • fossil -
  • spontaneous generation -
  • artificial selection -
  • geologic -
  • biogenesis -
  • natural selection -
  • mimicry -
  • Precambian -
  • protocell -
  • camouflage -
  • archaebacteria -
  • Paleozoic -
  • Mesozoic -
  • homologous -
  • Cenozoic -
  • analogous -
  • vestigial -
  • embryo -