Watkins’ World

You will be creating the following items in the Media Center on Thursday and Friday:

Invertebrate Animal Collage
Include a picture of an animal from each of the taxa listed below:
~Porifera
~Cniderian
~Platyhelminthes
~Nematoda
~Annelida
~Crustacean
~Insecta
~Arachnid
~Gastropods
~Bivalves
~Cephalopod
~Echinoderm

Be sure to label each animal with the taxa it represents.

See my example: invert-collage.doc

I found that Publisher is easier to use than Word. You could also use Power Point.

Vertebrate Animal Collage

Include a picture of an animal from each of the taxa below:
~Agnatha
~Chondrichthyes
~Osteichthyes
~Amphibia
~Reptilia
~Aves
~Mammalia

Be sure to label each animal with the taxa it represents.

In class today we reviewed the evolution and classification of plants.

Plant Notes

Plant Graphic Organizer

We also reviewed the History of the Earth:

History of Life

QUIZ Tomorrow!

In class today, we turned in Monday and Tuesday’s work.

We watcher “Animal Imposters”.

In class today, we completed the following worksheets:

flower anatomy ws
Seed Dispersal

Plants Adaptations
PLANT DIVERSITY

In class today we discussed the challenges of life on land and the adaptations made by plants and animals. Here are the notes and the pictures:

Notes – Ch 17

Figures to Acc. Notes

Tonight’s HW – page 342 Thinking Through the Concepts #1, 4,5,6

In class today we completed the Bead Bug Lab to simulate the process of natural selection.

No homework over the weekend

In class today we took the test on evolution, natural selection and the history of the earth.

Post any questions you have about the test here. I’ll check at 8 pm on Wednesday night and respond.

Update: I will be available tomorrow morning for questions as well.

-Contribution of the following to theory of evolution: Lamarck, Darwin, Cuvier, Plato, Hutton

-Darwin’s Book? Date?

-Natural Selection: definition and specific example

-Mutations

-Evolution defined

-Evidence supporting evolution

-Fossil record

-Comparative anatomy

-Vertebrate embryological stages

-Darwin’s research

-Gene Pool

-Causes of evolution

-Fossil Record

-First eukaryotic cell appeared?

-First multicellular land organisms?

-Flowering plants appeared?

-First land animals?

-Mass extinctions

-Humans appeared?

Study your notes from Chapter 14 (PPT is posted below), Ch 14 & 15 Self Test, & PPT from 2/16.

Test is 45 multiple choice and 1 short answer worth 10 points.

In class today we looked that the Evidence for Evolution and Natural Selection PowerPoint and discussed.

Evidence for NS

We also went over the worksheet from yesterday.

TEST Thursday