Physical Anthropologist

Directions:

• Individually: In the BSCS Biology textbook, read and follow directions for Physical Anthropologists on pgs 47-49 through #2g but skipping b and d.
• Individually: Write notes on Interview with a Physical Anthropologist in your notebook
• Team: Observe, measure, and compare mystery bones, record in data table (2a 1-2)
• Individually: Write explanation (2a 3)
• Individually: Read “Primates Show Change Across Time” essay on textbook p. 110
• Team: Discuss questions 2c 1 and 2
• Individually: Write your ideas in response to questions 2c 1 and 2
• Individually: Write inference
• Individually: Complete the Skull Analysis Gizmo
• Team: Prepare a presentation to share with the class:
  1. Description of their career
  2. Hominid Fossils
     • Summarize evidence you found
       • Indicating change over time
       • Indicating relatedness of early and modern hominids

Developmental Biologist

Instructions:

• Individually: Read and follow directions for developmental biologist through 2d on pages 45-47 of the BSCS Biology textbook.
• Individually: Write notes on Interview with Developmental Biologist
• Team: Arrange the embryo drawings in order, compare with answer key, discuss questions in 2d.
• Individually: Write explanations to questions in 2d.
• Individually: Once you’ve completed 2d, read “How DNA provides evidence for evolution” and answer these questions in your notebook:
  • Where is DNA located and what does it do?
  • How is DNA used as evidence for evolution?
• Team: Complete the Molecular Connection (cytochrome C) activity in packet.
• Team: Prepare the poster for presenting with the class:
  1. Description of their career
  2. Embryology
     • What you learned from studying different stages of embryos from different organisms and how information is used as evidence for evolution
  3. DNA Comparison of Cytochrome C
     • Share the cladogram and explain how it was constructed
     • Summary about how DNA analysis contributes evidence to the theory of evolution

Welcome to the Evidence for Change across Time activity!  As part of our Evolution Project, you were tasked with identifying careers associated with the study of evolution.  We will expand on what you learned about those careers in this activity.  You will be assigned to one of four careers.  Your job: complete the assigned tasks for your career.  Some parts of the activity should be completed as a team.  Other parts are to be completed individually, with the understanding that the members of your group are available for consultation.  You are expected to actively engage in your own learning and to share your learning with others.

For this project, you will be assigned to a team of 3 or 4 students.  Each team will receive a folder.  Please keep the  materials in the folder organized as they will be used by students in multiple classes.  You are expected to sit with your team this week and use class time efficiently.  Please do not ask to change groups.  You will present your work Friday, so your research and presentations must be completed and assembled before class begins Friday.

This work will count as your Evolution Unit Final Exam.  To receive credit, you must complete all individual and group work, document all of your research, and turn in all of your documentation in addition to preparing and sharing your findings during the presentation.  This will be your final grade for third quarter.  Late work will not be accepted.

Once you receive your assignment, it’s time to go to work!

• Paleontologist
• Evolutionary Biologist
• Physical Anthropologist
• Developmental Biologist

Evolutionary Biologist

Directions:

• Individually: Read and follow ALL directions for Evolutionary Biologists on pgs 44-45 of the BSCS Biology Textbook.
• Make sure the following information is written in your notebook:
  • Notes on Interview with an Evolutionary Biologist
  • Notes/diagrams of dissection
  • Coloring sheets complete
  • Answer to question 2e (pg 45)
  • Notes from essay, “Evidence for Evolution: Vestigial structures” Not the one in the book
  • Answer to question 3a (pg 45)
  • Answer to question 4 a-b (pg 45)
• Team: Create a poster that you can use to explain to your classmates of how fossils form and how they can be dated. Use the half-slip in your packet that explains exactly what needs to be in your final presentation.
  1. Description of their career
  2. How each of the following is evidence for evolution
     • Comparison of chicken dissection wing with bat wing and human hand diagrams
     • Description of vestigial structures (what, why & how)
     • Description of homologous structures (what, why & how)