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1 Friday/Monday, October 6/9, 2017 Your Learning Goal: SWBAT compare relationships between species to place them on a modified family tree called a cladogram. Table of Contents: Lines of Descent - 9R+L Key Terms: Related, Common Descent, Cladogram Catalyst: (9L) 1. What do the zebra and the horse have in common? 2. Are the zebra and horse related? 3. What is your evidence? Agenda: Homework: 1. Catalyst 2. Cladogram Building 3. Jigsaw Reading

2 Table of Contents Date Assignment Pg # 9/19/17 The Fossil Record 6R +L 9/22/17 Transitions 7R+L 9/26/17 Present Day Vertebrates 8R +L 10/6/17 Lines of Descent 9R + L

3 10/6/17 Catalyst: 1. What do the zebra and the horse have in common? 2. Are the zebra and horse related? 3. What is your evidence? Lines of Descent 10/6/17 CER: 9L 9R

4 1. What do the zebra and the horse have in common? 2. Are the zebra and horse related? 3. What is your evidence? 9L

5 Focus question How can a model help us understand the relationships among organisms?

6 What observations can we make about the relationships on this family tree?

7 What does this family tree do well? What can we NOT learn from this tree?

8 Glossary Related: Connected by a common ancestor(s)

9 10/6/17 Catalyst: 1. What do the zebra and the horse have in common? 2. Are the zebra and horse related? 3. What is your evidence? Lines of Descent Alligator Bird Frog Human 10/6/17 CER: Rabbit Shark Tuna 9L 9R

10 Classification Cards Sort the cards into groups that you think represent close relationships.

11 Create A List 9R What PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS do each of these animals have

12 Let s Organize create your own species family tree

13 1. What are some things we can learn from the cladogram? 2. What are some limitations? Organism Relationship Shared Characteristic

14 Glossary Related: Connected by a common ancestor(s) Cladogram: A tree diagram to show evolutionary relationships based on shared characteristics.

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16 Glossary Related: Connected by a common ancestor(s) Cladogram: A tree diagram to show evolutionary relationships based on shared characteristics. Common Descent: Groups of organisms who share a common ancestor. The theory states all living things came from one original common ancestor.

17 Putting it Together 1. Read your assigned page as a table group: Do you understand evolutionary Trees? 2. Synthesize your learning into ONE detailed summary sentence (in your own words). 3. me your sentence: maxime.salzburg@larchmontcharter.org 9R

18 10/6/17 Catalyst: 1. What do the zebra and the horse have in common? 2. Are the zebra and horse related? 3. What is your evidence? Lines of Descent 10/6/17 CER: Do you understand evolutionary trees? Write your 9L Sentences HERE 9R

19 How Does our Thinking Change? Where would we put the dolphin on our cladogram? What evidence do we use to make this decision? Add dolphin to your notebook grid and list its physical characteristics

20 Are Dolphins Mammals? Place dolphin on your cladogram

21 10/6/17 Catalyst: 1. What do the zebra and the horse have in common? 2. Are the zebra and horse related? 3. What is your evidence? Lines of Descent 10/6/17 CER: How are the organisms on this cladogram related? I know organisms on the cladogram are related because 9L Do you understand Evolutionary Trees Write your sentences HERE 9R

22 CER: How are the organisms on this cladogram related? I know organisms on the cladogram are related because 9L

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