important for a species survival. T4T Material N/A Food Sources: Food Sources: Natural Selection Building Materials: Building Materials: Reading Students notice Some traits are Greater genetic Natural Selection Big Idea that organism’s more favorable variety in a physical than others. population allows appearances for greater survival change over time. Organisms that are of the species. more adapted to their environments are more likely to survive. Connection to Students start to Students collect Students collect Students verify Culminating Task collect evidence to evidence to explain evidence to explain their ideas of explain what favorable traits. natural selection. natural selection natural selection is. and collect evidence to back up claims. CA Standards CA.7.5.c CA.7.5.b CA.7.5.b CA.7.5.a CA.7.5.e CA.7.5.e CA.7.5.b CA.7.5.e Next Generation MS-LS-4-2 MS-LS-4-4 MS-LS-4-4 MS-LS-4-4 Science Standards Time 1 Period 2 Periods 2 Periods 1 Period Lesson 5: Explain Lesson 6: Extend Lesson 7: Evaluate (Culminating Task) Student Experience Students create a claim Students will complete a Students will research and argument mini reading and discussion one artificially selected essay using the on artificial selection in organism and evaluate paragraph frames to our society whether or not the explain how having a organism has benefited variety of traits in a Students will extend the the environment it lives population allows for activities they did and in. natural selection and determine if the Explore ultimate survival of the activity was natural species.
important for a species survival. T4T Material N/A Food Sources: Building Materials: Food Sources: Building Materials: Natural Selection Reading Big Idea Students notice that organism’s physical appearances change over time. Some traits are more favorable than others. Organisms that are more adapted to their environments are more likely to survive. Greater genetic variety in a population allows for greater survival of the species. Natural Selection Connection to Culminating Task Students start to collect evidence to explain what natural selection is. Students collect evidence to explain favorable traits. Students collect evidence to explain natural selection. Students verify their ideas of natural selection and collect evidence to back up claims. CA Standards CA.7.5.c CA.7.5.b CA.7.5.e CA.7.5.b CA.7.5.e CA.7.5.a CA.7.5.b CA.7.5.e Next Generation Science Standards MS-LS-4-2 MS-LS-4-4 MS-LS-4-4 MS-LS-4-4 Time 1 Period 2 Periods 2 Periods 1 Period Lesson 5: Explain (Culminating Task) Lesson 6: Extend Lesson 7: Evaluate Student Experience Students create a claim and argument mini essay using the paragraph frames to explain how having a variety of traits in a population allows for natural selection and ultimate survival of the species. Students will complete a reading and discussion on artificial selection in our society Students will extend the activities they did and determine if the Explore activity was natural Students will research one artificially selected organism and evaluate whether or not the organism has benefited the environment it lives in.
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