Evolution Box

3. Where's the Evidence?

Observe Evidence of Chemical Reactions Big Idea Application During chemical processes matter can change forms. The overarching essential questions being considered What happens during a chemical reaction? The essential questions being considered How can you ...

5. Identifying Forces

Given seven drawings depicting motion, students will be able to correctly identify, describe, and indicate direction and relative magnitude of three to five forces in each. Relationship to big idea Everything physical ...

4. Types of Forces

Given a textbook passage on forces, students will be able to organize the passage's information into a graphic organizer and teach the information to other students. Relationship to big idea Everything physical ...

3. Walking Whales

  Students will use the information they have learned about the evidence scientists use to prove the theory of evolution in a real life look at an authentic question about ...

2. Animals of Point Reyes

  Students will use their knowledge gained of both the habitats, and types of adaptations that animals use to survive in their environments.  They will create a fictitious animal that will ...

1. Mariposas

  The purpose of this lesson is to start a dialog on the importance of adaptations to a species and individuals survival.  In the end students will understand how animals use ...

Evolution Box Block Plan

Week 1 - Pretrip

Monday - Observation Mariposas in the classroom, camouflaging into the room, see whose lasts the longest between 6th and 7th grade.   

Evolution - Sources and Standards


California State Science Standards Grade 7 - Evolution

Evolution Assessment

Performance Tasks Students will be able to design an organism that could live in Pt Reyes, both today and what adaptations it would need in order to live there in one ...