Science 7 (Planning KDU) CORE COMPETENCIES CORE COMPETENCIES CORE COMPETENCIES COMMUNICATION THINKING (CRITICAL/CREATIVE) (PERSONAL/SOCIAL) CURRICULAR COMPETENCIES BIG IDEA What do we want students to DO? Content (& Elaborations) (Understand…) (Activities, lessons…) (Know) Questioning and predicting Evolution by Questions to support inquiry with Core Focus: BIOLOGY natural selection students: Organisms have evolved over time (Evolution is the change that occurs in provides an Why do living things change over (change in traits of populations living things over long periods of time. This explanation for the time? over time) change is a result of organisms being diversity and How do these changes affect survival needs (all organisms need suited to their environment. Evolution is an survival of living biodiversity? space, food, water, and access to important concept in biological science, as things. resources in order to survive) scientists are always searching for the natural selection (the natural underlying laws, reasons, or explanations process by which certain traits for their observations of living things. Key questions about evolution: that have a greater fitness for Key questions about evolution: How have How have species on Earth evolved their environment lead to a species on Earth evolved due to natural due to natural selection? reproductive advantage; this selection? How does fossil evidence process happens within a support the evolution of geological time?) population over time because of Demonstrate a sustained intellectual genetic variation) curiosity a scientific topic or problem of personal interest Make observations aimed at Evidence of Experience (Show) identifying their own questions about the natural world Identify questions to answer or problems to through scientific inquiry Formulate alternatives “If…then…” hypotheses based on their questions BIG IDEA What do we want students to DO? Content (& Elaborations) Make predictions about the findings of (Understand…) their inquiry (Activities, lessons…) (Know)
Science 7 (Planning KDU) CORE COMPETENCIES COMMUNICATION CORE COMPETENCIES THINKING (CRITICAL/CREATIVE) CORE COMPETENCIES (PERSONAL/SOCIAL) CURRICULAR COMPETENCIES BIG IDEA (Understand…) What do we want students to DO? (Activities, lessons…) Content (& Elaborations) (Know) Questioning and predicting (Evolution is the change that occurs in living things over long periods of time. This change is a result of organisms being suited to their environment. Evolution is an important concept in biological science, as scientists are always searching for the underlying laws, reasons, or explanations for their observations of living things. Key questions about evolution: How have species on Earth evolved due to natural selection? How does fossil evidence support the evolution of geological time?) Demonstrate a sustained intellectual curiosity a scientific topic or problem of personal interest Make observations aimed at identifying their own questions about the natural world Identify questions to answer or problems to through scientific inquiry Formulate alternatives “If…then…” hypotheses based on their questions Make predictions about the findings of their inquiry Evolution by natural selection provides an explanation for the diversity and survival of living things. Questions to support inquiry with students: Why do living things change over time? How do these changes affect biodiversity? Key questions about evolution: How have species on Earth evolved due to natural selection? Core Focus: BIOLOGY Organisms have evolved over time (change in traits of populations over time) survival needs (all organisms need space, food, water, and access to resources in order to survive) natural selection (the natural process by which certain traits that have a greater fitness for their environment lead to a reproductive advantage; this process happens within a population over time because of genetic variation) Evidence of Experience (Show) BIG IDEA (Understand…) What do we want students to DO? (Activities, lessons…) Content (& Elaborations) (Know)
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