Course Name:	Zoology				Week: 1  				Teacher:  Berry & Norris
Week at a Glance**Subject to Change*
Week of :   July 29 – August 2 	
Essential Question(s): 

What rules, equipment and safety symbols do students need to know in order to be safe and productive in lab?
What are the anatomical regions and areas of a specimen?  
How do students correctly dissect a specimen?
	
Standard(s): SZ1     SZ2     SZ3     SZ4     SZ5   
Sch1: Students will identify and investigate problems scientifically.
SZ2:  Students will explain the evolutionary history of animals over the geological history of Earth.
a.	Outline the geological history of Earth and discuss the major environmental changes that have occurred over time. 
b.	Describe the fossil record of the animal including discussing the Cambrian Explosion and major extinction events.  	
↓↓↓   OBJECTIVES   ↓↓↓	
KNOW

How to safely work in the laboratory

The anatomical terms associated with a specimen

How geologic time and the fossil record explain many extinction events of many animal species.
	UNDERSTAND

A specimen should be treated with respect and not mutilated during dissection.  

The sequence of geologic time and the events that occurred leading to mass extinctions and explosions of life.
	BE ABLE TO 

Dissect and identify internal & external structures of a specimen

Outline the geological history of Earth and discuss the major environmental changes that have occurred over time
 	
Daily Agenda	
Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Early SNOW Release	
Activities:
Teacher Work Day	Activities:
Teacher Work Day	Activities:
Teacher Work Day	Activities:

1.	TRSS Forms
2.	Sign up for Schoology
3.	Info. Sheet
4.	Syllabus/Class Rules
5.	Zoo Poem
6.	Safety symbols/equipment lab sheet.
	Activities:  

1.Sign up for Schoology if you are new today!
2. Complete Zoo Poem
3. Simon says anatomical terms.
4. Observation Rotation Lab 	
HW- 	HW- 
	HW- 	HW- Get a banana for dissection on Monday
	HW:  Get a Banana for Monday
	
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x Group Work- grouped by learning style.
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Assessment	
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   Summative 	x  Formative-simon says
x  Summative- quiz & lab HO