Beginning the Summer Week One-Evolution

Welcome to NP High School Biology Summer School. This blog will have an outline for what we are doing in class. Feel free to post any comments to the blog. If you want to remain anonymous in your posting you may.

The Main Standards We will cover this 4 weeks are...Week One: Evolution (Natural Selection, The History of Life), Week Two: Cell Parts and Functions, Week Three: DNA and Genetics. Week Four: Organismal Development (Mitosis, Meiosis, Development).

Week One Goal: Explain the process of Natural Selection and the different pieces of evidence for the theory of evolution.

Question on the Board: How did all the different forms of life get here?

Tuesday Day 1:
Informational Notecard, starting ppt.

1.) Morning Work: Your Heraldry Symbol, Four Images (Top Left-Best thing you've ever done in a science class, Top Right-Thing you are most interested related to science, Bottom Left-What you want to do when you are out of high school, Bottom Left-One of your strengths, beneath-one of you weaknesses)
Practice Participation and Respect: Share with someone you do not know. Then you will report to the class on that person.

2.) Expectations Handout-Attendance, Participation, Respect (yourself-by making good decisions, others-listening, doing things for them, no put downs, words of encouragement)

3.) Fill in the blank with the projector on.
Effective teachers...
Effective students...

Hand out "In order to do well in Mr. Gensic's biology class students should..."
discuss and go over

4.) Grade Weighting
Notebook: 20%
Activities, Worksheets, Labs: 40%
Test Quizzes: 40%
Every day you miss after=5% deduction from Final Grade.

5.) Past Biology Survey-Computer Lab
-Computer Lab, Investigate Delicious.com/jgensic
-Go over results when done in the lab.
-Send an email to jogensic@npusc.k12.in.us with the following information...
Name, Grade Next Year, Why you are taking this class, home phone number, grade school, one question you have for me.

Discuss the Notebook Set Up: Parts and Tabs.
6.) Vocabulary discussion, word, picture, words, in a sentence, (0-10 rating)
Species, Natural Selection, Variation, Mutation, Competition, Adaptation, Speciation

Walk outside in forest-Usual mid day activity.
-Come back in and record observations.
-Tadpoles

7.) Intro Videos: Evolution of Dance. Analyze evolution of dance.

Parallel to Natural Selection. In notes. Overproduction (Many dances), Variations/DNA Mutations (A new type of dance), Competition (not all dances are as popular as each other), Inheritance of Favorable Traits (the most popular dances spread), New Species evolves (new dance becomes popular).

8.) Colored Toothpicks Lab. Out in the Grass.

9.) Textbook Reading following an outline of the Natural Selection Chapter.

10.) Nowhere to Hide Natural Selection online and Peppered Moths

11.) Hand out beans for tomorrow's activity.

Wednesday
1.) Start with fossil dig. Observations portion of book.
What did you notice?
-Simpsons Youtube Evolution Clip
2.) Review Parts of Natural Selection, Anything not done from Tuesday.
3.) Types of Evolution Discussion and Vocabulary Notebook
(homologous, analogous, punctuated equilibrium, convergent evolution, divergent evolution, adaptive radiation)
4.) Oh Deer Game and Lab Answer Questions
5.) Walk in the Woods?
6.) Bean Activity with wind.
7.) Simpsons Creation vs. Evolution Video

Thursday
1. Pyramid Review Vocabulary
2. Making a history of earth timeline
3. Evolutionary History of favorite organism ppt.
4. Conversations about animals evolutionary history.
5. Bean Activity with no wind
6. Review Pyramid, Millionaire
7. Darwin Xtranormal talks to the class.

Friday
1. Pyramid review vocabulary
2. Evolution Quiz, Natural Selection, Vocabulary, Darwin, Labs
3. Evolution of Dogs Video
4. Making a classification of all the leaves students find on a walk to the woods.
Students collect samples of leaves from as many different plants as possible. They determine which leaves are most similar and make a relationship tree of those leaves. (grass, bushes, trees, weeds, anything and everything). Students do the same with seeds they find.