{"id":266,"date":"2016-01-28T16:53:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T21:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/eportfolio-sample\/?page_id=266"},"modified":"2016-05-01T19:47:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T23:47:32","slug":"learning-actcivities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-echen\/learning-teaching-portraits\/portrait-ii-overview\/learning-actcivities\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><u><strong>Unit Calendar<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/u><em>Provide a calendar of key learning activities, learning strategies, and assessments for your anticipated timeframe for the unit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 1: Adaptations and environment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Students will engage in games, simulations, and skits to learn about structural and behavioral adaptations and how the environment relates to these adaptations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 2: Natural selection, classification, and evolution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Students will reflect on their notebook entries and also complete a research project on an assigned animal. Students will share information about their animal research projects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 3: Comparative anatomy, fossils, connection to evolution<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They will learn about scientific classification and be able to contribute to a scientific classification tree for their class. They will look at fossils and begin to learn elements about comparative anatomy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Week 4: Chicken wing dissection and more comparative anatomy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leading up to the break, students will be learning more about how comparative anatomy relates to evolution. They will work on a lab report after a chicken wing dissection and complete some analysis questions.<\/p>\n<p>Next Up:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-echen\/learning-teaching-portraits\/portrait-ii-overview\/student-work-samples\/\">Student Work Samples<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unit Calendar Provide a calendar of key learning activities, learning strategies, and assessments for your anticipated timeframe for the unit. Week 1: Adaptations and environment Students will engage in games, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"parent":73,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-266","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-echen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-echen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-echen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-echen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-echen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-echen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/266\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-echen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/mat16-echen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}