High School Science

The History of Life

Biology

Quarter 4

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

● Half-life ● Geologic time scale

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

● Paleontologist ● Relative dating

● Law of superposition ● Radiometric dating ● Endosymbiont theory

● Epoch ● Period ● Era

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