7th Grade Life Science Calendar 2016-17

Unit 3 - Evolution - Q3

January 2017
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Week 21     18 19 20 21
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1) Science Starter

2) Notes: Origins of Life (OneNote)

3) Origins of Life Webquest (Worksheet)

HW: Week 22 Key Terms

1) Science Starter

2) Finish Origins of Life Webquest

3) Reading: Classifying Life (pgs 14-21)

4) Virtual Lab: How are living things Classified?

HW: Week 22 Key Terms

 

Week 22

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MS-LS4-2. Apply scientific ideas to construct an explanation for the anatomical similarities and differences among modern organisms and between modern and fossil organisms to infer evolutionary relationships.

1) Science Starter

2) NOTES: Classifying Life (powerpoint) (cornell template)

3) Classification Worksheet #1 | Dichotomous Key Worksheet

4) Levels of Classification Time Test Practice

5) Exit Slip Challenge #1

HW: Week 22 Key Terms

 

Math MAP TESTING

Week 22 Quiz

Room Code: sawyerscience

 

Classification Worksheet #1 | Dichotomous Key Worksheet

 

 

February 2017
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Week 23

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MS-LS4-2. Apply scientific ideas to construct an explanation for the anatomical similarities and differences among modern organisms and between modern and fossil organisms to infer evolutionary relationships

1. Science Starter

2. Finish Classification Activity

3. Reading: Slug Book (pg. 26-29)

4. NOTES: Cladograms (PowerPoint) (Cornell Notes)

5. Exit Slip Challenge

HW: Week 23 Key Terms

1. Science Starter

2. LAB 23: Building Cladograms

3. Exit Slip Challenge

HW: Week 23 Key Terms

 

Week 23 Quiz

Room Code: sawyerscience

Update OneNote

 

Week 24

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MS-LS4-2. Apply scientific ideas to construct an explanation for the anatomical similarities and differences among modern organisms and between modern and fossil organisms to infer evolutionary relationships

1. Science Starter

2. Finish Cladograms

3. More Cladogram practice

4. Virtual Lab on Natural Selection

HW:Week 24 Vocabulary Words

1. Science Starter

2. Reading: 166-175 (Flower Book) answer questions

3. Notes: Who was Darwin?

4. Darwin's Voyage Activity.

HW:Week 24 Vocabulary Words

 

Week 24 Quiz

Room Code: sawyerscience

Update OneNote

 

Week 25

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MS-LS4-4: Construct an explanation based on evidence that describes how genetic variations of traits in a population increase some individuals’ probability of surviving and reproducing in a specific environment. 

1) Science Starter

2) Natural Selection Activity

3) Review Darwin and introduce more about his theories.

4) Virtual Lab: Peppered Moth Simulation

5) Science Finisher

HW:

Finsh Peppered Moth Lab Questions

1) Science Starter

2) Which creature is the Fittest?

3) Adaptive Radiation

4) The Importance of Opposable Thumbs

 

No School

(Staff Development)

 
Week 26 20 21 22 23 24  
MS-LS4-6: Use mathematical representation to support explanations of how natural selection may lead to increases and decreases of specific traits in populations over time. (Mathematical models, probability statements, and proportional reasoning to support explanations of trends in changes to a population over time) 

No School

Presidents Day

1) Science Starter

2) Complete Adaptation Lab

3) Update OneNote

HW: Week 26 Vocabulary Words

 

1) Science Starter

2) Reading: Evidence for Evolution (Flower Book 176-179)

3) Notes: Evidence for Evolution | Questions

4) Fossils Worksheet | Dating the Fossil Record

HW: Week 26 Vocabulary Words

 

March 2017

  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday  
Week 27 27 28 1 2 3  
MS-LS4-2. Apply scientific ideas to construct an explanation for the anatomical similarities and differences among modern organisms and between modern and fossil organisms to infer evolutionary relationships

1) Science Starter

2) Finish the Fossil Record Activity

3) Relative & Radiometric Dating

HW: Week 27 Key Terms | HONORS

1) Science Starter

2) Homologous Structures

3) Reading: p. 180-181 - Flower Book

4) Rate of Change

5) Evolution Drawings

HW: Week 27 Key Terms | HONORS

Week 27 Quiz

Room Code: (sawyerscience)

 
Week 28 6 7 8 9 10  
         
Week 29 13 14 15 16 17  
 
Unit 3 Review
Unit 3 GVC
   
Week 30 20

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END of 3rd Quarter

 

 
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