March 30th Plan

Sorry I can’t be there today. No, I am not taking an extended spring break… lets just say I can’t be there because of Cooper and leave it at that. Anyways, heres what I need you to accomplish during my absence.

Biology

today you’ll start a week long project on evolution. You and your group must come up with an idea and impliment it. Your goal is to teach a 6th grader the idea of what evolution is and the mechanisms behind it. Use the hand outs I’ve provided to guide you. Keep the following in mind:

What is the challenge question (what do I want them to be able to answer by the time they’re done)?
How can I get/keep their attention?
How will the information be delivered?
What information do they need to know? what vocabulary will they need to know?
How will they prove they have learned anything?
This is a chance for you to ‘be the teacher’. Think about good teachers you have had and use the strategies that work best on you.
Choose 10 words from the list below as your ‘vocab list’. Create simple definitions a 6th grader could understand for each term.
- Evolution
- The Big Bang
- Biogenesis
- Theia
- Natural Selection
- Artificial Selection
- Galapagos
- Divergent
- Convergent
- Coevolution
- Fossil
- Homologous
- Analogous
- Vestigial
- Darwin
- isolation
Using my youtube page (youtube.com/mrkubuske), checkout some of the projects from last year.
Work hard, work together, and have fun!