OBJECTIVE: Students will examine variation among organisms in order to recognize its importance in evolution.
WARM-UP: What is natural selection?
VOCABULARY:
1) evolution
2) theory
3) fossil
4) artificial selection
5) struggle for existence
6) fitness
7) adaptation
CLASSWORK:
1) Warm-Up/Vocabulary
2) Review 15-1 and 15-2
3) Activity p. 368- Do Lima Beans Show Variation?
4) Review pictures/slides of organisms found on the Galápagos with class discussion of organisms and their adaptations. Students to share ideas in pairs.
5) Closure
TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK:
Read and outline Section 15-2
HOMEWORK DUE:
15-1 outline
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
None