Thursday, August 23, 2012 - B DAY

Objective:
Students will . . .
be introduced to the theme of evolution in order to evaluate the idea of descent with modification.

Warm Up:
*  Turn in Homework
*  AP Practice Exam pg. 365 (7-10)

Classwork:
Review Warm Up
Collect & Review Homework
Ch. 23 -- Notes, "Descent with Modification" (uploaded later)


"Darwin Makes the Front Page" Newspaper Activity
Exit Ticket:  Evolution 101

Homework:
*Complete Definitions Page.  Terms Following:

1. artificial selection
2. biogeography
3. catastrophism
4. descent with modification
5. evolution
6. evolutionary adaptation
7. fossil
8. gradualism
9. homologous structures
10. homology
11. natural selection
12. paleontology
13. sedimentary rock
14. taxonomy
15. uniformitarianism
16. vestigial organ/vestigial structures
17. adaptations
18. convergent evolution
19. analogous
20. strata
21. evolutionary tree
22. Pangaea
23. Endemic

*Read, Take Notes, Highlight Darwin's Finches Adaptation Lab
Lab Groups Follow:

                                 

SAT Words:  
Thursday, August 23 – ABDUCT (v.) – to kidnap
In the book that she read for her report, the killer abducted his victims before he harmed them.

Friday, August 24 – ABERRATION (n.) – a deviation from the expected course
After the student finished his chemistry experiment, he noticed a decided aberration from his hypothesis.