Gr12Bio Unit D Biodiversity

D1

Unit D – Notes and Reference Reading. Provided in class.  The On-Line Version of the Reference Reading.

Unit D – Biodiversity Study Guide.  Not Hand-in; highly recommend sample questions to focus your studies.

D2

Unit D – YouTube Playlist.  Lots of selected videos that I select from to paste into daily Lesson Support Playlists

Worksheets (possible Assignments)

• Example: Dichotomous Key Smilies. (D-1 in class)
• Worksheet – Dichotomous Keys of Norns. (Assignment DELTA-2, Due in class 14 May)
• Worksheet – Taxonomy, Classification, Dichotomous Keys of  creatures.  (Assignment DELTA-3, Due   in class 17 Oct )  
• Puzzle Word Wise.  (Assgt D-x; Optional if you need the extra 1.5% of course if you already have a mark >70% it will not change your mark anyway)
• Phylogenetic Tree Project(in class) 
  • Phylogenetic Tree Instructions
• Cosmic Time (‘Deep Time’) Lab (in class 18 Oct)
  • Make a timeline of the history of the planet
• Unit D Practice Quiz.  (in class 19 Oct)
• Unit D Word Find.  (Assgt D-x;  Optional if you need the extra 1.5% of course if you already have a mark >70% it will not change your mark anyway)

D4

Tree of Life. A big scientific project to catalog all of the planets living organisms! Check out the media page; tons of videos and pictures and sounds

D5

D7

NEW.  Here is a nice website showing the diversity of life in Canada.  Maps of where different organisms can be found:

https://canadianbiodiversity.mcgill.ca/english/species/