Download Lesson Plans Teacher: Robinson Dates: 4.24

Highlight reading strategy in green
Highlight writing strategy in yellow
Lesson Plans
Teacher: Robinson
Day 1-2
Dates: 4.24-5.5
Course: Pre-Biology
B: 4.25
Learning Target
Bell Ringer
Lesson
Exit Ticket
Homework
Day 3-4
Assessment
Learning Target
Write a summary that explains how artificial selection is similar, yet different to natural selection. (students will have to review the concepts to do
this accurately)
Quiz summariezing the steps of natural selection
I can explain how organisms are classified into a hierarchy of groups and subgroups based upon their evolutionary relationships. (6a)
Bell Ringer
Lesson
I can identify if an organism displays asymmetry or type of symmetry.
Identify what types of mutations occurred in the samples provided on the smart board.
Taxonomy -
(Add dates)
A: 4.24
I can summarize how Darwin and Wallace used the concepts of other scientists to formulate the concepts of Evolution by Natural Selection
Who was Thomas Malthus and what was his concern?
Explain the contributions made by Lyell and LaMark as it pertains to Natural and Artifical selection
(Add dates)
A: 4.26
B: 4.27
Aristotle’s beliefs
Linnaeus’s contributions to taxonomy.
Day 5-6
Exit Ticket
Homework
Assessment
Learning Target
(Add dates)
A: 4.48
Bell Ringer
Lesson
B: 5.1
Levels of taxonomy
Binomial Nomenclature
Purpose of taxonomy
Why is taxonomy important? Why is organizing things important?
Worksheet
Research and summarize the contributions of scientists, (Darwin, Malthus, Wallace, Lamarck, & Lyell) whose work led to the development of the
theory of evolution.
Use a Venn diagrams to compare prokaryotes/eukaryotes, protists/other eukaryotes, fungi/plants, and plants/animals.
Describe…
1. Bacteria/Archaea/Eukarya
2. Protista vs. prokaryotes (bacteria/archaea)
3. Protista vs. other Eukaryotes
4. Fungi vs Plantae
5. Plantae vs. Animalia
Define the various types of symmetry found in organisms and use examples on the smart board to familiarize the students with each type.
Exit Ticket
Differentiate between seed types and major plant parts.4
Which Kingdom includes multi-cellular organisms that have cell walls that do well in dark moist areas, & includes yeasts?
Are there more organisms at the family, class, order, or genus level of taxonomy? Justify your answer.
Day 7-8
(Add dates)
Homework
Assessment
Learning Target
Bell Ringer
Lesson
Notes / discussion
I can describe the major biomes and name the characteristics needed to survive in each.
Name the world’s major land biomes
Characteristics of the terrestrial biomes and aquatic biomes…and I can identify what traits are needed to survive there.
A: 5.2
Deseribe the characteristics of two major biomes and the traits needed to survive there.
Exit Ticket
Homework
B: 5.3
Assessment
Day 9-10
Learning Target I can describe the characteristics of the world’s terrestrial and aquatic biomes.
(Add dates)
Name the types of aquatic biomes
Bell Ringer
Characteristics of the terrestrial biomes and aquatic biomes, and I can describe what major characteristics are needed to survive in each.
Lesson
A: 5.4
Describe the major differences between the various aquatic biomes.
Exit Ticket
Homework
B: 5.5
Worksheet & text book pages
Assessment
CCSS/ MS Framework Competency/Objective:
6. Demonstrate an understanding of principles that explain the diversity of life and biological evolution.
a. Draw conclusions about how organisms are classified into a hierarchy of groups and subgroups based on similarities that reflect their evolutionary relationships. (DOK 2)
• Characteristics of the six kingdoms
• Major levels in the hierarchy of taxa (e.g., kingdom, phylum/division, class, order, family, genus, and species)
• Body plans (symmetry)
• Methods of sexual reproduction (e.g., conjugation, fertilization, pollination)
• Methods of asexual reproduction (e.g., budding, binary fission, regeneration, spore formation)
Obj 6 and 3. photosynthetic autotrophs and aerobic heterotroph.