01 MAY 2024 GRADE 12 BIOLOGY. Word of the day: Fitness
Announcements:
- No Quiz this week. We are falling behind! Anticipate a bigger TEST instead next week.
- Marks and attendance to sponsors and funders on Friday. Get in any overdue assignments, penalty if > one week overdue
Today:
- Warmup , Refresh Studies. Hee is an awesome series of vidoes from PBS: PBS Evolution Movies (30 Mins)
- If I only have one student maybe we check out the last five extinction events we have had (40 Mins)
- Section 16.4 Evidence of Evolution
- Lesson Support Video(s): Evidence of Evolution
- Finish Worksheet Assgt C-3 Darwin Presents his Case (Due in class today)
- Tree of Life Wrap Around. A good picture of the evoltuion of organisms on our planet, cn you see the Extinction Events?
- Assgt C-4 : 16.4 Worksheet Evidence of Evolution (due: <3 May)
- Read Ahead. 17.1 Genes and Variation We have examined how a single organism grows. how a family grows and prospers, now we look at how an entire population of organisms grow and prosper.
Useful Resources:
- Glossary. You have a great glossary handout from Day One. Should be flipping through that regularly
- Our Unit C Evolution Webpage
- MrD Biology Evolution YouTube Playlist. Mr D pretty much does this entire unit with us too! Of course watching movies is not learning! Writing out notes, cheat sheets, assignments, study guides, discussing in class, is the most effective way to learn
- My Unit C Playlist of selected Unit C Evolution videos.
- Grade 12 Bio Study Guide for Unit C to focus thoughts
Fitness:
Fitness: a measurement of the ability of a species to respond to the pressures of
natural selection; the ability of individuals to survive to propagate their genes