The Agriscience/Intro to Agriculture course helps students acquire a broad understanding of a variety of agricultural areas, develop an awareness of the many career opportunities in agriculture, participate in occupationally relevant experiences, and work cooperatively with a group to develop and expand leadership abilities. Students study California agriculture, agricultural business, agricultural technologies, natural resources, and animal, plant, and soil sciences.

In this biology lesson with math and ELA integration, students use real rock pocket mouse data to illustrate the Hardy-Weinberg principle.

In this video, NC Virtual educator, Brandi Thurmond, discusses Air Pollution with the aid of a light board.

Darwin and the Theory of EvolutionGiving us credit when you use our content and technology is not just important for legal reasons. When you provide attribution to CK-12 Foundation, you support the ability of our non-profit organization to make great educational experiences available to students around the world.Our Creative Commons License welcomes you to use our content and technology when you give us attribution. If you have any questions about our policies, contact us at support@ck12.org

Earth Forms and Life BeginsGiving us credit when you use our content and technology is not just important for legal reasons. When you provide attribution to CK-12 Foundation, you support the ability of our non-profit organization to make great educational experiences available to students around the world.Our Creative Commons License welcomes you to use our content and technology when you give us attribution. If you have any questions about our policies, contact us at support@ck12.org

Evidence for EvolutionGiving us credit when you use our content and technology is not just important for legal reasons. When you provide attribution to CK-12 Foundation, you support the ability of our non-profit organization to make great educational experiences available to students around the world.Our Creative Commons License welcomes you to use our content and technology when you give us attribution. If you have any questions about our policies, contact us at support@ck12.org

Sample Learning Goals
Determine which mutations are favored by the selection agents of predators and food variety and which mutations are neutral.
Describe which traits change the survivability of an organism in different environments.
Experiment with environments which produce a stable population of bunnies, a population that dies out, and a population that takes over the world.
Track genes through multiple generations.
Compare how dominant and recessive genes get passed onto offspring.

An introductino to evolutionary theroy. Giving us credit when you use our content and technology is not just important for legal reasons. When you provide attribution to CK-12 Foundation, you support the ability of our non-profit organization to make great educational experiences available to students around the world.Our Creative Commons License welcomes you to use our content and technology when you give us attribution. If you have any questions about our policies, contact us at support@ck12.org

In this high school unit on evolution, students initially investigate the case of young girl with a life-threatening infection of pan-resistant bacteria. This case sparks questions that lead them to investigate the growing prevalence of such cases and the discrepancies between antibiotic use in their communities and CDC recommendations. They expand their investigations to look at population changes occurring in a population of birds (juncos) which exhibit noticeable differences in physical and behavioral traits from the past 60 years.

Many of our friends and family members aren't following the CDC recommendations for antibiotic use. Different antibiotics have different ways of killing bacteria (dissolving cell membranes, blocking the construction of cell walls, interfering with DNA copying or repair, or blocking protein production).

For this unit plan, see the old unit calendar (link on left sidebar, click ALT5 tab at the bottom).  Once we update this unit to the new Doc template, we will post it here. This is now unit 5, but it used to be unit 6 (we will update file and folder numbering as we continue to revise the units). Thanks for your patience as we work hard this year to update all of the materials to the new unit template and unit/standards arrangements.

This task covers the idea of natural selection as a result of climate change. The task can be assigned prior to covering Objective 3.4 as an intro to natural selection or as a post assessment task once Objective 3.4 has been taught.  The task requires students to research climate change and how it drives evolution by natural selection. The task also requires students to research and explain other factors (disease, catastrophic events, competition) that can influence natural selection. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.