Fun Lab Wednesday

Agenda:

·        Hand in double bubble map

·        Finish discussing Darwin

·        Breakfast for the Birds (UP 4-8)

Homework:

·        Finish UP 4-8- tomorrow

·        HW pass- Tuesday

·        TV ad- 2/28

As bailey said yesterday the TV ad is about raising taxes to protect and endangered species that you get to choose. You have to make a TV commercial either defending or going against it. There are a few requirements, which are the following:

1.      Be persuasive

2.      Must have scientific info

3.      Keep the audience amused with jokes or something or pull at their hearts like the sad dog commercials

4.      Be creative

5.      At least 2 minutes

6.      Show your awesome faces!

Today in class we started off by continuing our notes on Darwin who as most of us no is credited for the theory of evolution.

Darwin’s Assumptions:

·        Overproduction

Ø  More offspring are produced than will survive

·        Struggle for existence

Ø  Predation and competition

·        Survival of the fittest (Natural selection)

Ø  Individuals best suited for the environment will survive, reproduce, and pass on traits to their offspring

·        Variations

Ø  Differences among members of the same species

·        Descent with Modification

Ø  Principle that species change but descend from common ancestors

For the rest of class after we finished our notes, we started an awesome lab that you should have been there for. You either got pliers, forceps, a slotted spoon, or a staple remover and you went around to different stations to try to pick things up. This showed how some birds are better than eating some things other than what that bird is eating. To find out more about the lab go to pages 4-8 in your UP. Overall this was a great class, the best of the week!!!!!

Our next scribe will be Emma B.