How Evolution Works

Google Doc

1. Explain the processes of evolution?

2. BrainPop: Evolution (Do the review quiz after watching the movie) List each answer on the google doc (just the letters, i.e. a, b, c, or d.) 

3. Time Travel: Evolution 

    a. as you travel through time list each period that is covered. 

4. Demonstration: the Evolution of Flight

    a. Animals increase their chances of ______ and ______ by being able to move away from danger and toward resources in their _________.

    b. While most animals make do by crawling, ________, _______ or _______, a few animals have evolved the extraordinary ability to ______. 

    c. List the 4 animals that have adapted to fly. 

5. How have desert plants adapted to their environment? 

6. Watch the video and answer the Edpuzzle questions. 

7. Demonstration:Plant Adaptations

    a. Click on any two booms and list 3 adaptations the plants and animals have made to live in that environment. 

8. Interactive: Pepper Moths

    a. What happened in your experiment? Run it a second time and see if you get the same results. 

9. Explain convergent evolution. Name another set of animals that have convergent evolution.

Demonstration: Examining Convergent Evolution

10. Explain what homologous structures are.

Demonstration: Understanding Evolution