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CD District Student Learning Map Evolution
Content Map: Biology I
Key Learning(s):
Topic: Evolution
Grade: 10
Unit Essential Question(s):
Optional Instructional Tools:
Evolution is a process of change
in populations over time.
What evidence suggests
occurrences of evolution in
organisms?
How does natural selection drive
changes in life?
Guided Reading
Natural Selection Activity
Timeline Activity
Notes/PowerPoint
Graphic Organizers
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Foundations of Evolutionary and
Natural Selection
3.1.B.C1: Explain how evolution
through natural selection can
result in changes in biodiversity
through the increase or decrease
of genetic diversity within a
population.
Fossil Record and History of Earth
3.1.B.C2: Describe the theory
suggesting that life on Earth arose
as a single, primitive prokaryote
about 4 billion years ago and that
for the next 2 billion years, a huge
diversity of single-celled
organisms evolved.
3.1.B.C3: Interpret data from the
fossil records, anatomy and
physiology, and DNA studies
relevant to the theory of evolution.
Microevolution
3.1.B.C1: Analyze the role that
geographic isolation can play in
speciation.
Speciation
3.1.B.C1: Analyze the role that
geographic isolation can play in
speciation.
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
What scientists influenced current
evolutionary theories and what
were their contributions?
How does natural selection lead to
evolution?
What data (evidence) supports
that life has changed, is changing,
and will continue to do so?
What conditions lead to changes
in a gene pool?
How do geographic barriers
influence the development of new
species?
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Concept:
Evolution
Variation
Natural Selection
Adaptation
Other Information:
Homologous structures
Vestigial structures
Embryology
Fossil records
Mass Extinction
Continental drift
Gene Pool
Microevolution
Genetic Drift
Gene Flow
Fitness
Speciation
Reproductive isolation
Adaptive radiation
Geographic isolation
Macroevolution
Punctuated Equilibrium