organisms based on CLE 3255.1.3 Relate specific Exploration Labs how they obtain energy. animal behaviors and plant CBL Probeware: Plant and Animal Explain the concept of Performance Tasks tropisms to survival. Interrelationships, CRF Ch. 4 pp. Organism Biographies adaptation. . CLE 3255.1.3 Relate Students will pick their CLE 3255.2.3 Summarize how specific animal behaviors How Do Brine Shrimp Select a favorite organism and write Describe the steps by which a natural selection influences a and plant tropisms to a “biography” for that Habitat?, CRF Ch. 4, pp. 23-26 population of insects becomes population over survival. organism that includes Observing Organisms Through the resistant to a pesticide. three chapters: one on Seasons, CRF Ch. 4, pp. 44-47 CLE 3255.Inq.5 Compare habitat, a second on the Identifying Medically Important Plants, experimental evidence and survival of that organism’s CRF Ch. 4, pp. 40-43 conclusions with those drawn by population within the Relating Natural Selection and others about the same testable community, and a third on Frequency of Traits ,CRF Ch. 4, pp. question. abiotic characteristics that 27-30 are crucial to the survival of Misbehaving Mealworms, CRF Ch. 4, the organism. pp. 31-33 Extinction Tribune Group Activities CLE 3255.Inq.6 Communicate Divide students into groups Connections Web, p.99 and defend scientific findings. of four. Have student Ecosystem Connections, p. 100 groups prepare a Golf Course Impacts, p.101 newspaper that provides Internet Activity: Self-sustaining information about the Colonies, extinction of species and p.101 incorporates the concept of Natural Variety, p. 103 natural selection. Topics Adaptations Worldwide, p. 104 could include extinction of Internet Activity: Gardens and Artificial dinosaurs, Selection, p. 106 extinctions, and Artificial Selection, p. 107 prehistoric mass Mushroom Walk, p. 109 extinctions. Each student Angiosperms In The Classroom, p. should produce one major 111 news story in addition to Pollinator Game, p. 112 helping with other features, such as headlines, Interactive Tutor CD: cartoons, obituaries, Ecosystem Structure
organisms based on how they obtain energy. CLE 3255.1.3 Relate specific animal behaviors and plant tropisms to survival. CLE 3255.1.3 Relate specific animal behaviors and plant tropisms to survival. . CLE 3255.2.3 Summarize how natural selection influences a population over CLE 3255.Inq.5 Compare experimental evidence and conclusions with those drawn by others about the same testable question. CLE 3255.Inq.6 Communicate and defend scientific findings. Explain the concept of adaptation. Describe the steps by which a population of insects becomes resistant to a pesticide. Exploration Labs CBL Probeware: Plant and Animal Interrelationships, CRF Ch. 4 pp. How Do Brine Shrimp Select a Habitat?, CRF Ch. 4, pp. 23-26 Observing Organisms Through the Seasons, CRF Ch. 4, pp. 44-47 Identifying Medically Important Plants, CRF Ch. 4, pp. 40-43 Relating Natural Selection and Frequency of Traits ,CRF Ch. 4, pp. 27-30 Misbehaving Mealworms, CRF Ch. 4, pp. 31-33 Group Activities Connections Web, p.99 Ecosystem Connections, p. 100 Golf Course Impacts, p.101 Internet Activity: Self-sustaining Colonies, p.101 Natural Variety, p. 103 Adaptations Worldwide, p. 104 Internet Activity: Gardens and Artificial Selection, p. 106 Artificial Selection, p. 107 Mushroom Walk, p. 109 Angiosperms In The Classroom, p. 111 Pollinator Game, p. 112 Interactive Tutor CD: Ecosystem Structure Performance Tasks Organism Biographies Students will pick their favorite organism and write a “biography” for that organism that includes three chapters: one on habitat, a second on the survival of that organism’s population within the community, and a third on abiotic characteristics that are crucial to the survival of the organism. Extinction Tribune Divide students into groups of four. Have student groups prepare a newspaper that provides information about the extinction of species and incorporates the concept of natural selection. Topics could include extinction of dinosaurs, extinctions, and prehistoric mass extinctions. Each student should produce one major news story in addition to helping with other features, such as headlines, cartoons, obituaries,
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