Natural Selection Reading Passage Comprehension | Darwin Finches
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Growing bundle of full year middle school reading comprehension passage topics. Reading comprehension passages are a great way to introduce or to review essential topics for 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, and some 9th grade classes. Introduce and explore middle school topics through a close reading passage worPrice $38.18Original Price $50.53Save $12.35
Growing bundle of full year middle school reading comprehension passage topics. Reading comprehension passages are a great way to introduce or to review essential topics for 6th, 7th, 8th, and some 9th grade classes. Introduce and explore middle school topics through a close reading passage workshePrice $28.17Original Price $34.11Save $5.94
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Explore natural selection through a 2 page close reading article. Students answer reading comprehension questions based off the article. Use as a bell ringer, a station activity, or an extension activity.
Article Topics:
- Defining Natural selection
- Charles Darwins Finches
- Peppered moths
- Antibiotic resistance
Product includes:
- 2 pages of student reading comprehension
- 1 editable page of student comprehension questions
- 1 editable answer key
Use this activity as:
- Bell ringer
- Station activity
- Gallery Walk Station
- Student notes
- Independent work
- Extension activity
- Choice board option
- Homework
- Substitute plans
Texas standard TEK 7.11C: Identify some changes in genetic traits that have occurred over several generations through natural selection and selective breeding such as the Galapagos Medium Ground Finch (Geospiza fortis) or domestic animals and hybrid plants.
Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) MS-LS4-5: Gather and synthesize information about technologies that have changed the way humans influence the inheritance of desired traits in organisms. Emphasis is on synthesizing information from reliable sources about the influence of humans on genetic outcomes in artificial selection (such as genetic modification, animal husbandry, gene therapy); and, on the impacts these technologies have on society as well as the technologies leading to these scientific discoveries.
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