BHS Biology Guide

The History of Life

Biology

Quarter 3

McGraw Hill Module 13

RESOURCES

PACING

● Module Launch: 45 min ● Lesson 1: 55 min ● Lesson 2: 55 min ● Module Wrap-Up: 45 min

Module 13: The History of Life ● Phenomena: What do you think this organism looked like when it was alive? ● Lesson 1: Fossil Evidence of Change ● Lesson 2: The Origin of Life

STANDARD

LEARNING PROGRESSIONS

● Fossil record, carbon dating, and plate tectonics ● Endosymbiotic theory ● Comparing and contrasting homologous, vestigial, and anatomical structures in extinct and extant species ● Comparative embryology ● Comparing and contrasting DNA, RNA, and Amino Acid sequences of various organisms to help support the idea evolving from a common ancestor

BIO 4.1 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to identify the patterns in the evidence that support biological evolution. Examples of evidence could include DNA sequences, amino acid sequences, anatomical structures, the fossil record, or order of appearance of structures during embryological development. (LS4.A)

CONCEPTS (Nouns)

SKILLS (Verbs)

● Patterns in DNA and amino acid sequences that support biological evolution ● Homologous and vestigial structures - anatomical structures ● Fossil record ● Order of appearance of structures during development

● Obtain information ● Evaluate information ● Communicate information

VOCABULARY

● Fossil ● Paleontologist ● Relative dating

● Half-life ● Geologic time scale

● Eon ● Cambrian explosion ● K-T boundary ● Plate tectonics ● Spontaneous generation ● Theory of biogenesis

● Law of superposition ● Radiometric dating ● Endosymbiont theory

● Epoch ● Period ● Era