Life Science UNIT for Middle School
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This is an all-inclusive inquiry based, student-centered unit on Life on Earth.
When you buy this bundle, you will gain:
- 8 student activities
- 1 teacher document
- 1 unit teaser document
- 1 unit rubric
- 1 presentation with class starters
- suggested unit timeline
- Directions to help implement this inquiry unit
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Unit Story: Due to Earth’s resources being depleted, the majority of the human population is relocating to Mars. You are part of a team that has been designated to stay behind and make Earth livable again.
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Unit Task: As one of the few scientists staying behind on Earth, you must determine a strategy for how to rebuild Earth, determine criteria that people must follow to recolonize Earth, and create a model of what houses will need to look like.
Topics Covered:
1. The 5 Big Mass Extinctions
2. Fossil Record
3. Evolution
4. Natural Selection
5. Environmental Factors
6. Natural Resources
7. Human Impact on Earth
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NGSS Middle School Science Standards covered:
- LS3-1 - Develop and use a model to describe why structural changes to genes (mutations) located on chromosomes may affect proteins and may result in harmful, beneficial, or neutral effects to the structure and function of the organism.
- LS4-1 - Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout history of life on Earth under the assumption that natural laws operate today as in the past.
- LS4-2 - Apply scientific ideas to construct an explanation for the anatomical similarities and differences among modern organisms and between modern and fossil organisms to infer evolutionary relationships.
- LS4-3 - Analyze displays of pictorial data to compare patterns of similarities in the embryological development across multiple species to identify relationships not evident in the fully formed anatomy.
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