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You’re ready to teach with this comprehensive bundle on evolution. Engage your students with animated PowerPoints and 2–3 weeks of aligned lessons covering the following topics:

  • Theory of evolution
  • Mutation
  • Darwin’s theory natural selection
  • Survival of the fittest
  • Adaptation
  • Radioactive carbon dating
  • Camouflage and survival

Unit bundle includes:

  • 100+ slide fully editable PowerPoint with objectives, bell work, guided notes and animations.
  • 50+ PDF pages of aligned notes, labs, projects, activities, study guide and assessments.
  • A final assessment aligned with the notes and activities completed during the unit.


Correlation to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

Science & Engineering Practices

Asking questions and defining problems
Developing and using models
Planning and carrying out investigations
Analyzing and interpreting data
Using mathematics and computational thinking
Constructing explanations and designing solutions
Engaging in argument from evidence
Obtaining, evaluation, and communicating information

Disciplinary Core Ideas

MS-LS4.A: Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity
MS-LS4.B: Natural Selection
MS-LS4C: Adaptation

Crosscutting Concepts

Systems and system models
Scale, proportion, and quantity
Cause and effect
Patterns
Energy and matter
Structure and function
Stability and change

Performance Expectations

MS-LS4-1. Analyze and interpret data for patterns in the fossil record that document the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of life forms throughout the history of life on Earth under the assumption that natural laws operate today as in the past.
MS-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.
MS-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.
MS-LS4-4. Construct an explanation based on evidence that describes how genetic variations of traits in a population increase some individuals’ probability of surviving and reproducing in a specific environment.