Living Earth · Week 13 · Evolution and Earth's History
Clues in Shared Ancestry
Comparing anatomical and DNA evidence for common ancestry and reflecting on the family and community roots students share.
- Students will
- Students compare anatomical and DNA evidence to explain how it supports common ancestry among species.
- SEL skill
- Notice curiosity and doubt while weighing evidence and name the roots you share with others
- What it looks like
- Students use emotions to think by noticing curiosity and doubt, and by naming the roots they share with family and community.
- Content focus
- Clues in shared ancestry
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness is knowing your own feelings, thoughts, and strengths and how they affect your actions. More self-awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- HS-LS4-1: High School Life Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP8 Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
- Crosscutting concept: CCC1 Patterns
- Literacy in science: RST.9-10.9 Compare and contrast findings in a text to those from other sources.
- Traditional course: Biology
Fits these textbook chapters
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More self-awareness activities for Living Earth
- Who Gets to Be a Scientist? Self-awarenessStudents map the questions they already ask about the desert around them and name the scientist identity they bring into Living Earth.
- Sunlight Into Sugar Self-awarenessModeling photosynthesis as an energy transformation and naming what refuels students' own energy.
- Semester Reflection: My Growth as a Scientist Self-awarenessStudents explain how the factors of evolution changed a real population, contrast that with how they grew as learners this semester, and set goals for the spring.
- The Code Inside Us Self-awarenessExplaining how DNA codes for proteins and reflecting on which traits are inherited and which are chosen.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.