Biology April and May 2015

Unit 4: Natural Selection & Evolution

LS 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 4-5
Class Webpage: http://tylkowskiscience.weebly.com

Monday
Tuesday
Week
34
Wednesday
Thursday

6
7

8
9

Friday

10

Monday

13

Tuesday

14

Week
35

Wednesday 15

Thursday
Friday
Monday
Week
36
Tuesday

16

NO SCHOOL
Survey
Connection Unit 3 & 4
Video Notes Introduction
Natural Selection, Artificial Selection, Human Selection
Video Notes
Video Notes
Review Unit 3 Exam
Curriculum Writing Substitute
Natural Selection ReadWorks
Who Wants to Live a Million Years?
http://www.sciencechannel.com/games-andinteractives/charles-darwin-game/
Finish Practice Quiz
Darwin (Notes 13.1 & 13.2) Changes in Populations (Notes
13.7 & 13.8)
Late-In END OF Q3 Progress Report 5
ReadWorks A Bird with Many Beaks / Grade Review with
Ms. Cribb
Finish A Bird with Many Beaks
HHMI Video - Finches Video (0-11:30)

17 Bird Beak Investigation on Variation & Adaptations

Homework if not finished
20 Population Shift 13.11-13.14
Population - Selective, Disruptive, Directional
Bacterial Resistance
Practice
21 Natural Selection Mouse & Moth Packet
Mouse Video

4-5
Environment &
Natural Selection

4-2
Factors: Sexual
Reproduction &
Mutations
4-2
Change the
Distribution of Traits

4-2 Compete for

limited resources

4-3 Analyze
Distribution
4-4 Adaptation of
Population

http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/making-fittest-naturalselection-and-adaptation

Review
Wednesday 22 Quiz Natural Selection & Adaptations
LS4.B LS4.C
Thursday 23 Speciation HHMI Finches Video (11:30-16:00)
CH. 14 - Variation by Sexual Selection & Reproduction
Barriers & Geographic Barriers

Change the
Distribution of Traits

Notes 13.4-13.6, 15.7, 15.10-15.17

Friday

New Species & Extinction

Fish to Finches Introduction
Create Gels After School
24 Fish to Finches Run Gels
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/labs/gel/electroph
oresis/

4-1
Genetic Relationship
Multiple Lines of
Evidence

Biology April and May 2015

Unit 4: Natural Selection & Evolution
LS 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 4-5
Class Webpage: http://tylkowskiscience.weebly.com

Monday

27 Analyze Fish to Finches

Week
Cladogram/Phylogenetic Trees
37
Tuesday
28 Analysis of Vestigial & Homologous Structures
Fossil Record
Fossils & Embryos
Convergent Evolution
13.4-13.6, 15.7, 15.10-15.17, Ch.18 & 19
Wednesday 29 CH. 14 - Variation by Sexual Selection & Reproduction
Barriers
Mimics & Camouflage - poisonous vs. nonpoisonous +
Zebras, Stick Bugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDPsZPKSEFg
Thursday 30 Study Guide Work Day
Friday
1 Study Guide Work Day
Monday
4 Review
Week
Tuesday
5 Exam 4 on Evolution
38
Extra Credit - Mutations Create Eyes
Wednesday 6 Late- In PARRC Substitute
Ecology LS4.C & LS 4.D
Evolution to Ecology
Thursday
7 PARRC
Friday
8
Monday
11 Ecology LS2.C LS2.A
Dynamics & Relationships
Tuesday
12
Week Wednesday 13
39
Thursday 14 Progress Report 6 END
Friday
Monday
Week
Tuesday
40
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday

15
18 Ecology LS2.D
19
20 Late-In
21
22 Junior/Senior Field Trip
Topics for Environmental Issues
Monday
25 No School Memorial Day
Week
Tuesday
26 Ecology Summative Activity
41
Wednesday 27 Computer Lab Environmental Issue
Thursday 28 Computer Lab Environmental Issues
Friday
29 Substitute
Prepare for Presentation
Monday
1 Senior Finals 7
Week
Presentation
42
Tuesday
2 Senior Finals
Study Guide Work Day
Wednesday 3 Senior Finals 1
Review
Thursday
4 Unit 5: Ecology Exam

Behavioral Ecology

Biology April and May 2015

Unit 4: Natural Selection & Evolution
LS 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 4-5
Class Webpage: http://tylkowskiscience.weebly.com

Friday
Monday
Week
Tuesday
41
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Monday
Week
Tuesday
42
Wednesday

5
8
9
10
11
12
15
16
17

Study Guide Work Day

Study Guide Work Day
Review Unit 3
Review Unit 3
Review Unit 4
Review Unit 5
FINAL EXAMS 8-7-6
FINAL EXAMS 2-1-3
FINAL EXAMS 5-4-0

Extra: Musical Chairs with Variations, Colored Paper/Cloth to Model Peppered, Ch. 17 Plants & Fungi