Digital Agenda March 3: Adventurian Timeline Lab

Standards:
MS-LS 4-1 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.  

Objectives

1.  Students will organize Adventurian fossils by age and describe the similarities in body structures of Adventurian fossils to give the specific evidence that the organism evolved by completing the Adventurian Fossil Lab with a 3 or better.




1. Do Now: Adventurian Lab and Evolution Pre-Quiz


2. Stations

Collaborative

Adventurian Evolution Lab
1. Two people Tape together Adventurian timeline, and cut out pieces (2 people cut and tape the lab together, the other partners cut the pieces out)

2. Place pieces of the Adventurian to the timeline in the correct places, then ask for teacher approval before gluing down

3. Describe the shared, and new traits that you see (everyone needs to write)

4. Discuss and answer all lab discussion questions with your group, due at the end of the period.

4= Groups correctly placed adventurian fossils, described shared, and new mutant structures accurately, and answered all discussion questions successfully using appropriate evidence.

3= Groups correctly placed adventurian fossils, described shared, and new mutant structures accurately with few mistakes, and answered all discussion questions successfully using evidence.

2= Groups placed adventurian fossils with few mistakes, described shared, and new mutant structures accurately with few mistakes, and answered all discussion questions successfully using evidence.

1/NP= Students made many placement errors, did not describe shared, or mutant traits, or did so with many errors, or did not answer all questions, or did not use evidence.