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Life Science
Richard Dudley
8th Grade Science
Life Science
Learning Targets
Describe the past using evidence from the fossil and geologic record.
Use the fossil record to provide evidence for environmental change and understanding concepts of extinction, biodiversity, and diversity of species.
Understand that an individual does not live forever and reproduction is necessary for the continuation of a species.
Understand Mendelian Genetics and relate it to the sorting and combining of genes dealing with diversity.
Use pedigrees to trace and explain how traits are passed from generation to generation based on Mendelian genetics
Relate traits to genes in DNA.
Identify the benefits of organisms that reproduce either sexually or asexually, or how some organisms are capable of both.
Describe that diversity increases the chance of some individuals having favorable traits.
Washington DC Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Department of Paleobiology
Human Origins Exhibit
Evolving Universe
Suggested Videos
Life Science Video Page
Life Science Links
Asexual vs. Sexual Reproduction
Finding Age of Rocks and Fossils
Introducing Biodiversity
Biodiversity Activity
Loneliest Animals
Gregor Mendel Biography
Gregor Mendel: Youtube
Mendel's Experiments
Mendel Genetics Flashcards
What is DNA: Youtube
Programming of Life: Youtube
Discovery of DNA: Youtube
Reproduction Described
Compare Meiosis & Mitosis
Asexual vs. Sexual Activity
Exploring Evolution: Web lab
Comparing Species: Human Evolution
Darwin's Dangerous Idea
Downloads
Getting Into the Fossil Record
Examine the Fossil Record
Loneliest Animals: Last
Loneliest Animals: Cause
Build a Pedigree
Make a Model of DNA
Gummy Model DNA
Textbook Readings
3-1 Mendel and His Peas
3-2 Traits and Heredity
3-3 Meiosis
4-1 DNA
4-2 How DNA Works
5-1 Change Over Time
5-2 How Does Evolution Happen
5-3 Natural Selection
6-1 Evidence of the Past
6-2 Geologic Time Scale
6-3 Humans & Primates