1.24.10

Sorry I forgot to post this yesterday!!!!

Agenda

-Grades & New Seats

-New Unit!

-notecard demo

-video

Homework

-Get a homework pass from Mrs. Stein. You have until next Monday.

-Read 16.1-16.3 (pages 450-464)

-with a double bubble map "Darwin vs. Lamark" ~~~ due Wednesday

In class, we played a game that was like the game telephone except instead of whispering to the person next to you, you showed them a drawing. Slowly, the drawings built up to a fish. However, the last person's drawing did not end up looking much like a fish at all!

We played this game to demonstrate evolution. The game taught us that gradually things change over time.

At the end of class we began watching a video with Alan Alda. In the video, we see how Alan retraces Darwin's footsteps through the Galapagos Islands.

EVOLUTION brainstorm:

*Evolution ~ change over time

*"We evolved from monkeys" ~ NOT TRUE! But we are similar to monkeys.

*Common ancestor ~ the "link" between humans and apes

*Evolution is a theory, not a fact

*There is evidence to support evolution

-fossils

-genetic makeup (human genes are only 2% different from the genes of an ape)

*Charles Darwin ~ credited with the Theory of Evolution