Mid-October

• Tues 10/9:  Notes on Invertebrate Phyla and Chordate Classes.  Work time for Dichotomous Key Activity (have ready for another student to do on Monday 10/15).  Mesocosm Observation.
• Wed 10/10:  Short classes!  Brief introduction to cladograms and do Cladogram Activity Part I done in pairs.  Mesocosm write-up due through turnitin.com tomorrow, 10/11.  Read 5.4.
• Mon 10/15:  Exchange dichotomous keys and do them.  Cladogram computer activity (cladogram Part II).  
• Wed 10/17:  Finish Cladogram Activity, Molecular Clocks, and other cladogram activities.  Overview of Biodiversity Test to be taken next Tuesday 10/23.   Read 5.1 and do 2 out of the 3 DBQ's in that section in your notebook.
• Fri 10/19:  Review for Biodiversity Test.  Darwin Video.  List evidence for evolution and do 2 out of 3 DBQ's in 5.1 in not already.
• Tues 10/23:  Short Biodiversity Test.  Principles of natural selection and evidence for evolution.  Read 5.2.  DBQ on p. 253 and 255.
• Thurs 10/25:  Darwin and the Galapagos Finches.  DBQ on p. 255.  Introduce animal poster project.