Change Topics Unit, Evolution, Natural Selection, Earth System History and more

This unit includes 6 Parts and 40 lessons (50 minutes each) and 95 pages of printable work bundles. The Work Bundles have students fill-in critical notes, conduct exciting hands-on activities, answer questions, interpret graphs, includes games, built-in quizzes, and much more. The work bundles chronologically follow the detailed and interactive set of slideshows. A Quiz Game concludes each part for a great review and additional assessment. Answer Keys, materials list, video links, crosswords, built-in quizzes, and much more are provided. Everything you need to run a fantastic learning experience is provided. Everything arrives in editable format if you want add in your own slides and activities, and the slideshows and work bundles can easily be converted into Google Slides / docs for friendly Google Classroom learning.

Part 1 Explores Darwin, and Wallace, the Monkey Trials, Evidences of Evolution, Mechanisms of Change, and includes plenty of exciting hands-on activities. Part 1 has 10 lessons of about 50 minutes, and 23 page work bundle has students fill-in critical notes, conduct exciting hands-on activities, answer questions, graph activities, complete quizzes, includes games, and much more. The work bundle chronologically follows the detailed slideshow for an amazing learning experience. Everything you need for an amazing learning experience is provided.

Part 2 is about Natural Selection and explores the Galapagos Islands, has the students create a story about a hypotheticus, learn about convergent and divergent evolution, and feed on various types of "seeds" with various "beaks" for a fantastic wrap-up activity. This part also includes a 13 page work bundle that chronologically follows a highly interactive and engaging approach to PowerPoint.

Part 3 is all about Earth System History. Student learn about the age of earth, units of time, important event of Precambrian Super Eon, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic, build a timeline and more. 8 lessons of about 50 minutes, and 9 page work bundle, chronologically follow the daily lessons. A project about creating a class timeline of the earths events is provided and always a lot of fun.

Part 4 explores Human Evolution and includes 5 lessons of about 50 minutes and 12 page work bundle that chronologically follows the entire learning experience. Students explore an extremely interactive web experience called Becominghuman.org and complete a sheet for a fantastic review opportunity.

Part 5 Explores Life's Origins and includes 6 lessons and 13 page work bundle. Students learn about what makes something living, biologically important elements, characteristics of life, theories on life origins, and the Miller-Urey experiment.

Part 6 Wraps up the Unit learning about Ecological Succession. This part includes 7 lessons with a 19 page work bundle. This part also includes aquatic succession, fire ecology, and possible project that includes data collection at various sites around your school.

The Evolution and Natural / Change Topics Unit explores Evolution, Natural Selection, Characteristics of Life, Life Origins, Human Origins, Earth System History and Ecological Succession.

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