Teaching Evolution through Human Examples The "Teaching Evolution through Human Examples" (TEtHE) three-year exploratory research and development project was funded by National Science Foundation Discovery Research K-12 grant #1119468. The project has created four curriculum units for Advanced Placement (AP) Biology classes, aligned to the learning objectives, using human case studies to teach core evolutionary principles. The curriculum units are: (1) Adaptation to Altitude, (2) Malaria, (3) Evolution of Human Skin Color, and (4) What Does It Mean To Be Human?. The project has also created a CRS (Cultural and Religious Sensitivity) Teaching Strategies Resource to help teachers create a comfortable and supportive classroom environment for teaching evolution. More information about the project can be found here (link is external). All of our resources are downloadable here for free! Click on this link: bit.ly/TeachHumanEvolution (link is external) What Does It Mean to be Human? Description: Contents: Activity 1 feedback:
9. Hare and Lynx Populations Once students understand the concept of populations, it is important to introduce the idea of population change. There are many reasons for population change – limited resources, predator-prey cycles, human ... Summary Once students understand the concept of populations, it is important to introduce the idea of population change. Teacher Background After learning about habitats, food webs and food chains, students can begin to discover the relationships between organisms and between organisms and their environment. Populations are always changing. The snowshoe hare is a common species of rabbit found in North America, its range extending throughout Canada, Alaska, and into the northern United States. The Canada lynx is a wild cat that resembles a large house cat with a short tail and prominent tufts on its ears. For over 300 years, the Hudson Bay Company has been involved in the fur trade in Canada. Another theory is that the lynx population determines the hare population.
Tools & Food New Tools, New Foods Dawn of technology By 2.6 million years ago Early humans in East Africa used hammerstones to strike stone cores and produce sharp flakes. How Do We Know This Zebra Was Food? Stone tool marks on this zebra bone look like those made during butchery experiments. Handaxes came in handy Beginning 1.7 million years ago Around this time, toolmakers began to strike huge flakes off stone cores. Handaxe Makers Cope with Catastrophe Smithsonian scientists and their Chinese colleagues found these handaxes in the same sediment layer with tektites, small rocks that formed during a meteor impact 803,000 years ago. Since the handaxes and tektites were in the same layer, both are the same age. A huge meteor impact occurred in the atmosphere near China 803,000 years ago and the shock caused earth rocks to melt and explode, forming tektites. What’s cooking? By 790,000 years ago The earliest hearths are at least 790,000 years old. unting Large Animals Reducing the risk Oldest evidence of hunting
Are we ready for neo-evolution? - Harvey Fineberg Theodosius Grygorovych Dobzhansky was a prominent geneticist and evolutionary biologist, and a central figure in the field of evolutionary biology for his work in shaping the unifying modern evolutionary synthesis. Antonio Damasio's research in neuroscience has shown that emotions play a central role in social cognition and decision-making. His work has had a major influence on current understanding of the neural systems, which underlie memory, language, consciousness. The Big Bang theory is an effort to explain what happened at the very beginning of our universe. Evolution is the change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. The Human Genome Project (HGP) was one of the great feats of exploration in history — an international research effort to sequence and map all of the genes - together known as the genome - of members of our species, Homo sapiens. Frances Arnold is an internationally recognized American scientist and engineer.
Coneixement del Medi. Unitat Didàctica 12: Vivim en comunitat 1. La familia, els veïns i els amics La familia La majoria de nosaltres vivim en familia. La convivència familiar ha d’estar basada en l’afecte, el respecte i la col·laboració entre tots els seus membres. Els veïns Unes altres persones que vien prop, al nostre edifici o al mateix barri de la localitat, són els nostres veïns. Els amics Al llarg de la nostra vida coneixem persones amb les quals compartim afecte, gustos, jocs, aficions, dificultats, alegries, treballs… Són els amics. 2. Les tasques familiars La vida en familia exigix treballar molt, fora i dins de casa. Les tasques domèstiques s’han de compartir. Els adults normalment es distribueixen les tasques domèstiques: comprar, cuinar, netejar la casa, llavar, planxar la roba i fer reparacions… A mesura que creixem, hem d’anar fent-nos càrec d’algunes tasques: ordenar el dormitori, parar o desparar taula, fer comandes… Les tasques domèstiques Són necessàries per al bon funionament de la casa. Allò que pots fer 3. Com ens eduquem al col·legi?
Curiosity, discovery and gecko feet - Robert Full UC Berkeley biologist Robert Full is fascinated with cockroach legs that allow them to scuttle at full speed across loose mesh and gecko feet that have billions of nano-bristles to run straight up walls. He's using his research to design the perfect robotic "distributed foot," adding spines, hairs and other parts to metal legs and creating versatile scampering machines. He's helped create robots, such as Spinybot, which can walk up sheer glass like a gecko -- and he even helped Pixar create more realistic insect animations in the film A Bug's Life. Robert Full on animal movement Robert Full: Engineering and evolution Robert Full: Learning from the gecko's tail
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Earth's mass extinction - Peter Ward This Island Earth is a 1955 American science fiction film directed by Joseph M. Newman. It is based on the novel of the same name byRaymond F. Jones. The Rare Earth hypothesis argues that complex extraterrestrial life requires an Earth-like planet with similar circumstance and that few if any such planets exist. The Life and Death of Planet Earth is a book by Peter Ward about how the new science of astrobiology charts the ultimate fate of our world. A runaway greenhouse effect is a process in which a net positive feedback between surface temperature and atmospheric opacity increases the strength of the greenhouse effect on a planet until its oceans boil away. The Permian Extinction is the Earth's most severe known extinction event, with up to 96% of all marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species becoming extinct. The three ages of dinosaurs were marked out by geologists to distinguish among various types of geologic strata laid down tens of millions of years ago.