Biology - EC: BIO.B.3.1.1
Biology - EC: BIO.B.3.1.1
Continuum of Activities
The list below represents a continuum of activities: resources categorized by Standard/Eligible Content that teachers may use to move students toward proficiency. Using LEA curriculum and available materials and resources, teachers can customize the activity statements/questions for classroom use.
This continuum of activities offers:
- Instructional activities designed to be integrated into planned lessons
- Questions/activities that grow in complexity
- Opportunities for differentiation for each student’s level of performance
Related Academic Standards / Eligible Content
Activities
- The process by which the individuals that are most suited for their environment survive and reproduce is known as?
- If an organism has a trait that allows it to survive, what would most likely happen to the allele frequencies of that trait in future generations?
- The Giant panda’s ancestors were born with five short toes. The modern day Giant panda has an additional toe on the wrist that acts as a thumb. Why would this new trait carry on in future generations of the Giant panda?
- Give an example of a trait in a lizard that would help it survive in a newly flooded environment. Explain your answer.
- Different types of organisms have different types of teeth. Explain how natural selection could account for different shaped teeth?
- If the environment doesn’t change drastically and species do not have variations, what is likely to happen to the diversity within the species and why?
Answer Key/Rubric
- Natural selection or survival of the fittest
- Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
It will become more common in future generations.
- Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
The “thumb” helped the Giant panda survive and therefore reproduce and pass the gene on to future generations.
- Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
- If the lizard had webbed toes it could use them to propel the lizard through the water.
- Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
- A plant eater could have been born with a mutation for flat grinding teeth that allowed them to extract more nutrients out of their food by grinding it.
- Acceptable answers include, but are not limited to:
- There will be very few differences within the species because they don’t need to adapt to a new environment therefore those with new adaptations don’t survive.
