Living Earth · Week 18 · Evolution and Earth's History
Semester Reflection: My Growth as a Scientist
Students 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.
- Students will
- Students explain with evidence how variation, inheritance, selection, and time changed a real population, then contrast evolution with their own growth as learners.
- SEL skill
- Recognize your own growth and set a goal using evidence from the semester
- What it looks like
- Students practice self-awareness by recognizing how they have grown as scientists since August.
- Content focus
- Semester growth through evolution
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness means paying attention to your own emotions, ideas, and values and how they influence your behavior. 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-LS4-2: High School Life Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP8 Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
- Crosscutting concept: CCC7 Stability and change
- Literacy in science: WHST.9-10.9 Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
- Traditional course: Biology
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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.
- Clues in Shared Ancestry Self-awarenessComparing anatomical and DNA evidence for common ancestry and reflecting on the family and community roots students share.
- 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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