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=Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results= E5. Evolution Grade 9-Diploma Students describe the interactions between and among species, populations, and environments that lead to natural selection and evolution. ||
 * **Establish Goals (MLR):** **(G)** ||
 * Maine Learning Results: Science and Technology- E. The living Environment

//What understandings are desired?//
•interactions between species, populations, and environments lead to natural selection and evolution •natural selection provides an evolutionary mechanism that can be advantageous or disadvantageous to the next generation ||
 * **//Students will understand that://** **(U)** ||
 * •all life as we know it has evolved through genetic transfer and natural selection

//What essential questions will be considered?//
•Why do interactions between species, populations, and environments lead to natural selection and evolution? •How natural selection provides an evolutionary mechanism that can be advantageous or disadvantagoues tothe next generation? ||
 * **Essential Questions:** **(Q)** ||
 * •How has life as we know evolved through genetic transfer and natural selection?

//What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?//
•key factual informantion: different evolutionary theories, variences in concepts (natural selection, gradualism, effects of environment, etc.) •important events: major extinction events, eras, epochs and periods, darwin and evolution || •describe the premise of biological evolution •evaluate why some organisms have characteristics that have no apparent survival or reproductive advantages •exhibit knowledge of the origins of life and other theories of evolution •analyze concepts of natural selection of evolution •relate structural and behavioral adaptations of an organism to its survival in the environment •recoganize evidence from the fossil record and evidence based on observation of similarities within the diversity of existing organisms ||
 * **//Students will know://** **(K)** || **//Students will be able to://** **(S)** ||
 * •terminology: natural selection,genetic transfer, evolution, phyletic gradualism, punctuated equilibrium, species, population, environment, extinction


 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.**