This is "evolution for beginners" and looks a shared derived characteristics, branching tree diagrams and takes a trip to the Galapagos for an activity on natural selection. For the natural selection activity, email me at gjohnston@ssis.edu.vn

1. Evolution
Mr. Johnston
Saigon South International School

2. Reading Warm Up: The Mantis Shrimp

3. Key Question:
● How are Evolution and Classification
Related?

4. Vocabulary
● Evolution
● Branching Tree Diagram
● Shared Derived
Characteristic
● Convergent Evolution
● Natural Selection
● Artificial Selection

5. “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several
powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or
into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on
according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a
beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful
have been, and are being, evolved” - Charles Darwin

6. Natural Selection
Link to Reading: Peppered Moth
Evolution

7. (Selective Breeding)
Artificial
Selection

8. Branching Tree
Diagram and Shared
Derived Characteristics

9. Convergent
Evolution

10. Activity
Let’s take a trip on the
Beagle to the Galapagos
to learn about Natural
Selection!
Link to our data!

11. Exit Interview! Link