7th Grade Science Guide

7.5: Changes in Species 3 Dimensions & Progressions

Unit 6

being the predator of the Peppered Moths.

Activity: Butterfy Adaptation

Objective

Overview

Materials

● I can explain how some traits can increase or decrease an organism’s chance of survival in a specifc environment.

● Students will cut out the Butterfy and Adapt it to the environment of the classroom in plain sight.

● Lesson Plan

Activity: Biomes of the World

Objective

Overview

Materials

● I can explain how some traits can increase or decrease an organism’s chance of survival in a specifc environment.

● Students will learn about the Biome’s of the world and what is most adapted to living in each.

● Lesson Plan

Activity: Choose your Traits

Objective

Overview

Materials

● I can explain how some traits can increase or decrease an organism’s chance of survival in a specifc environment.

● Students will understand that adaptations occur in a population instead of in individual organisms.

● Lesson Plan

Activity: Gizmo Natural & Artifcial Selection

Objective

Overview

Materials

● Natural and Artifcial Selection Gizmo allows students to explore the process of artifcial

● Gizmo

● I can use artifcial selection to develop a new variety of insects, distinguish between the processes of natural and artifcial selection, and compare the rates at which natural and artifcial selection occur.

selection and compare its outcomes to the results of natural selection.