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OpenSciEd Biology + Earth & Space Unit 5: Common Ancestry and Speciation Student Workbook
Author(s): NATIONAL CENTER FOR
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 102
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OpenSciEd High School addresses all high school NGSS standards. This comprehensive science curriculum empowers students to question, design, investigate, and solve the world around them.
- Phenomenon Based - Centered around exploring phenomena or solving problems
- Driven by Student Questions - Storyline based on students’ questions and ideas
- Grounded in Evidence - Incremental building and revision of ideas based on evidence
- Collaborative - class and teacher figure out ideas together
- Equitable - Builds a classroom culture that values ideas and learning of all
The OpenSciEd model uses a storyline approach, introducing phenomena that anchors storylines developing disciplinary core ideas, concepts, and science/engineering practices. Students are encouraged to dive deep into key points and solve problems through five activities.
B.5 Common Ancestry & Speciation: What will happen to Arctic bear populations as their environment changes?
This unit is anchored by the unusual sightings of polar, brown, and black bears in Wapusk National Park. Students investigate why this is so unusual and consider what this means for the bears as the Arctic warms. Lesson Set 1 focuses on bear thermoregulation and how speciation occurred over geologic time. In Lesson Set 2 students learn about hybridization of bears as an alternative future for the bears. They consider the speed at which extinction and speciation events occurred in the past compared with changes occurring today. Students research ways humans protected other species from extinction and debate what role humans should play in protecting Arctic bears from extinction.
Perfectly aligned with each unit, the consumable student workbook provides students with a dedicated space to write through their ideas and thoughts with every exercise and activity helping to reinforce important themes and concepts.
The Student Edition, Teacher Edition and material kits are sold separately.
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OpenSciEd® was launched to improve the supply of and address the demand for high-quality, open-source, full course science instructional materials. The goals of OpenSciEd are to ensure any science teacher, anywhere, can access and download freely available, high quality, locally adaptable materials. Though the goal of providing full course materials is still a couple of years away, OpenSciEd is releasing six-week units of instruction as they are completed and externally evaluated as quality by Achieve’s Science Peer Review Panel. OpenSciEd classroom materials are an open education resource and therefore free to download, copy, use, and/or modify. You can download the instructional materials free of charge at Access Materials page on the OpenSciEd website. In an effort to lower barriers for all educators to use OpenSciEd, Kendall Hunt and OpenSciEd have partnered to sell high quality printed books, professional learning and lab kits.