Science Classroom Connection

We will discuss, elaborate, and reinforce the evolutionary process in action by commenting upon convergent and divergent evolutionary processes as well as contrast artificial selection with natural selection, and the role that coevolution plays in the daily lives of organisms.

Students will work in pairs for two-class sessions to construct an evolutionary timeline of organisms that lived and have lived on Earth for the past 600 million years. Students will be provided with the pertinent information for their construction timeline  process.

We will discuss the several inferences about the history of life that are supported by evidence from fossils and rocks. Additionally, we will examine how biogeography provide evidence that species evolve adaptations to their environment. Furthermore, we will elaborate upon how anatomy and development of organisms provide the evidence of shared ancestry. Moreover, we will examine the use of biological molecules with other types of analysis of evolutionary relationships as well as the ongoing development of evolutionary theory.

Students are to reinforce the evolutionary thoughts of the several scientists that we are studying by answering question #’s: 2, 3, 5, 7, and 8 on page 301.