Sunday, April 22, 2007

7th grade Evolution and Adaptation Unit

You guys did a fabulous job with your creature features! This style of testing was similar to the type we did in the body system unit...remember the booklets and travel brochures? You did an awesome job on those, so I wanted to give you another opportunity to use a project as a means to show what you learned. I think you did a wonderful job interpreting genetic combinations to determine traits. You also showed creativity, imagination, and a great deal of knowledge with the construction of your creature and the oral presentation. We are now ready to move into our next unit of evolution and adaptation. This will not be a long unit, I am hoping to get through this information in a couple of weeks. We will be taking a virtual field trip to the Galapagos Islands online. I hope this project proves to be a fun learning experience for this unit. Check out the web sources below to find out more about evolution and adaptation.

http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Darwin.htm

http://www.darwins-theory-of-evolution.com/

http://www.galapagos.org/


http://www.rit.edu/~rhrsbi/GalapagosPages/AboutGalapagos.html


http://www.pbs.org/safarchive/5_cool/galapagos/g1_welcome.html

55 comments:

Anonymous said...

The website is cool. It will help me with more stuff. If I need help I will ask you more because I can go on the computer and ask.

Harley Mullins

Anonymous said...

thedarwin thoery is really cool

Anonymous said...

wow mr.s this new unit that we will be workin on seems really fun i hope it is short (lol)will gotta go i hope we do a great job on this unit!!!

Anonymous said...

hello mrs.s i hope that this new unit we will be workin on will be fun the last unit we workded on was very fun!!! i hope that this will be just as fun

Anonymous said...

i looked up a picture of charles darwin and he looks pretty old.....

Anonymous said...

When we get older can we still use this site to get help from you if we need it?

Anonymous said...

genetics was kind of easy i was
wodering if evolution is going to
be hard or not because every things been kind of easy this whole
intier year if you ask me


i was just wondering

your favorite student larry gavin
1st hour

shorty said...

love your class it's so fun and i just love being in your class

Anonymous said...

H3y mS.sYUlvEster,
i KinDa g3t thIs StUfF iT miGhT
cOm3 alOnG foR Me lAteR!!!
Maria Isif

Anonymous said...

ms.sylvester I believe in god creating the world and evolution
is all wrong.

Anonymous said...

hi i don't evolution

Anonymous said...

evelution is confusing its hard to understand. and are we realy evloved from monkeys

Anonymous said...

we study for a test

Anonymous said...

yeah, i don't believe dis stuff home slice.

Anonymous said...

The evolution and adaptation im still trying how to figure out, it sounds cool.

Anonymous said...

Monique Black
Hello mrs.s what up i love this new blogspot site it is awesome i dont like evolution it is really wierd i dont belive that a mokey evolved to a man and i think that it is really wierd that a frog jumped out of the water then a million years later it is a man walking down the street they talked about that a little bit in church and they belive in a higher bieng and so do i well peace mrs.s

p.s- my email is moniqueispimpin121@yahoo.com

Anonymous said...

wassup homie i think dis is cool yo, lol, just messin around. this theroy is kind of, well, a lie to me. just figured id let u no.

Anonymous said...

i believe in god

Anonymous said...

the darwin thoery is really cool

Anonymous said...

This unit is interesting and fun!!

Anonymous said...

oh what fun this unit is going to be

Anonymous said...

hey yo

Anonymous said...

This sounds like a cool unit. I've wanted to know more about evolution, and I'm glad it won't take more than a few weeks.

Anonymous said...

This is very kool.

Anonymous said...

Even doe i didn't do my creature feature they where sweet

Anonymous said...

i think this will be a coll subject to learn

Anonymous said...

what ups i think we are going to learn about it through are books

Anonymous said...

The darwin thorey is really cool even though i hav not read it yet i am going to enjoy it

Anonymous said...

i really like this unit will be fun. VERY FUN
Shumel Ahmed

Anonymous said...

i really like the games on this site and it helps me learn!!!

Anonymous said...

hi mrs. sylvester the darwin thoery
is preety cool

Anonymous said...

hey ms sylvester i really like this site it helps me with sicence alot......

Anonymous said...

hi Ms. sylvester
the genetics unit is really really fun and i had fun making my creature feature.

Anonymous said...

hi ms.sylvester that darwin thoery
is sweet cool.

Anonymous said...

hey ms.s this is a cool unit

Anonymous said...

hey when are we go to galapagos ilands

Anonymous said...

can we still use this next year, and even if we have diffrent teachers.

Anonymous said...

Why do we have to study this is everyone says they dont really believe it. u cant study any religious stuff but u can study something that is against u, i find that kind of dissing our religion. if i don't like to believe any other thing but there was a god, then i shouldn't have to be forced to learn it, so i believe they should teack both or they should not talk about the theory at all.

Anonymous said...

i realt like this unit, and the siberfield trip sounds fun to even thoe science isnt realy my thing...



samantha morales
peppermint7545@hotmail.com

samadul said...

my weekend is really boring......

samadul said...

i wonder if i can evolve and grow wings some days

Anonymous said...

on the journals were suppose to right i am really confused on were we are and like really about what were suppose to write on the white board wit da stcik i dont know exacly were to go to find all da stuff so please explain

samadul said...

my life is so boring i made 16 e-mail accounts and no one messages me so i message myself....pretty sad dont you think?

samadul said...

this weekend i got a butterfly and an ant.
ripped off the butterflys wings and tried sticking it on the ant.
it woud've been cool if it worked......

Anonymous said...

hi um i think that we should be diceting somethig real. how can we even dicet a plant. i mean common now. why cant we do sharks or crab fish.



signed,
anonymous

Anonymous said...

hi mrs.sylvestor
im having a hard time on my project i like your class

Anonymous said...

hi

Anonymous said...

hello

Anonymous said...

how r u?

Anonymous said...

hello again

Anonymous said...

darwin guy is so old he is older then some dirt. but i realy like this project but no the writing part it is to hard first you say to write about the animals and then later you say write about the exp so that made it harder. so next time just make us make a eco system thing of the galapago islands. that wil lbe way easier then this......

Anonymous said...

The website is cool. It will help me with more stuff. If I need help I will ask you more because I can go on the computer and ask.

Harley Mullins

April 23, 2007 8:13 AM


brandon_2794 said...
thedarwin thoery is really cool

April 23, 2007 8:16 AM


rachburr03 said...
wow mr.s this new unit that we will be workin on seems really fun i hope it is short (lol)will gotta go i hope we do a great job on this unit!!!

April 23, 2007 8:21 AM


rahcburr03 said...
hello mrs.s i hope that this new unit we will be workin on will be fun the last unit we workded on was very fun!!! i hope that this will be just as fun

April 23, 2007 8:23 AM


samadul said...
i looked up a picture of charles darwin and he looks pretty old.....

April 23, 2007 8:30 AM


Tessa said...
When we get older can we still use this site to get help from you if we need it?

April 23, 2007 8:31 AM


Anonymous said...
genetics was kind of easy i was
wodering if evolution is going to
be hard or not because every things been kind of easy this whole
intier year if you ask me


i was just wondering

your favorite student larry gavin
1st hour

April 23, 2007 8:36 AM


shorty said...
love your class it's so fun and i just love being in your class

April 23, 2007 8:36 AM


Anonymous said...
H3y mS.sYUlvEster,
i KinDa g3t thIs StUfF iT miGhT
cOm3 alOnG foR Me lAteR!!!
Maria Isif

April 23, 2007 8:41 AM


Anonymous said...
ms.sylvester I believe in god creating the world and evolution
is all wrong.

April 23, 2007 8:41 AM


Tera said...
hi i don't evolution

April 23, 2007 9:34 AM


yousif hermiz said...
evelution is confusing its hard to understand. and are we realy evloved from monkeys

April 23, 2007 9:36 AM


xj9 said...
we study for a test

April 23, 2007 9:37 AM


Mariah said...
yeah, i don't believe dis stuff home slice.

April 23, 2007 9:38 AM


joey said...
The evolution and adaptation im still trying how to figure out, it sounds cool.

April 23, 2007 9:38 AM


Monique Black said...
Monique Black
Hello mrs.s what up i love this new blogspot site it is awesome i dont like evolution it is really wierd i dont belive that a mokey evolved to a man and i think that it is really wierd that a frog jumped out of the water then a million years later it is a man walking down the street they talked about that a little bit in church and they belive in a higher bieng and so do i well peace mrs.s

p.s- my email is moniqueispimpin121@yahoo.com

April 23, 2007 9:40 AM


KT said...
wassup homie i think dis is cool yo, lol, just messin around. this theroy is kind of, well, a lie to me. just figured id let u no.

April 23, 2007 9:40 AM


Anonymous said...
i believe in god

April 23, 2007 9:43 AM


anonynous said...
the darwin thoery is really cool

April 23, 2007 9:44 AM


Mai Lee said...
This unit is interesting and fun!!

April 23, 2007 10:20 AM


Joe T said...
oh what fun this unit is going to be

April 23, 2007 10:42 AM


Anonymous said...
hey yo

April 23, 2007 10:53 AM


Joe said...
This sounds like a cool unit. I've wanted to know more about evolution, and I'm glad it won't take more than a few weeks.

April 23, 2007 2:15 PM


Thor said...
This is very kool.

April 23, 2007 2:16 PM


~Randy said...
y

April 23, 2007 2:17 PM


Aaron said...
Even doe i didn't do my creature feature they where sweet

April 23, 2007 2:18 PM


michael said...
i think this will be a coll subject to learn

April 23, 2007 2:18 PM


Marcus Dean said...
what ups i think we are going to learn about it through are books

April 23, 2007 2:21 PM


Shumel said...
The darwin thorey is really cool even though i hav not read it yet i am going to enjoy it

April 23, 2007 2:27 PM


SHUMEL AHMED said...
i really like this unit will be fun. VERY FUN
Shumel Ahmed

April 23, 2007 2:29 PM


chris said...
i really like the games on this site and it helps me learn!!!

April 23, 2007 2:30 PM


david said...
hi mrs. sylvester the darwin thoery
is preety cool

April 23, 2007 2:30 PM


crystal said...
hey ms sylvester i really like this site it helps me with sicence alot......

April 23, 2007 2:32 PM


Ashlee Varani said...
hi Ms. sylvester
the genetics unit is really really fun and i had fun making my creature feature.

April 23, 2007 2:33 PM


sheilarisby said...
hi ms.sylvester that darwin thoery
is sweet cool.

April 23, 2007 2:42 PM


brandon said...
hey ms.s this is a cool unit

April 26, 2007 9:18 AM


tera said...
hey when are we go to galapagos ilands

April 26, 2007 9:27 AM


yousif said...
can we still use this next year, and even if we have diffrent teachers.

April 26, 2007 9:40 AM


Katie said...
Why do we have to study this is everyone says they dont really believe it. u cant study any religious stuff but u can study something that is against u, i find that kind of dissing our religion. if i don't like to believe any other thing but there was a god, then i shouldn't have to be forced to learn it, so i believe they should teack both or they should not talk about the theory at all.

April 26, 2007 9:43 AM


samantha said...
i realt like this unit, and the siberfield trip sounds fun to even thoe science isnt realy my thing...



samantha morales
peppermint7545@hotmail.com

May 1, 2007 11:32 PM


samadul rules said...
my weekend is really boring......

May 6, 2007 5:22 PM


samadul rules said...
i wonder if i can evolve and grow wings some days

May 6, 2007 5:23 PM


Anonymous said...
on the journals were suppose to right i am really confused on were we are and like really about what were suppose to write on the white board wit da stcik i dont know exacly were to go to find all da stuff so please explain

May 7, 2007 8:43 PM

Anonymous said...

Hi,Mrs.Sylvester here is the web sight i waz telling u about for the Galapagos Islands trip....

http://www.galapagosonline.com/nathistory/wildlife/wildlife.htm

SAMANTHA MORALES

P.S.ill still write it down if u dont get it in time...

Anonymous said...

hey

i herard that we were going to disect a plant how are we gonna do that. i've never herard of even doing that before. what about the crab fish.[huh???] =] bye bye for now

Anonymous said...

D3AR MRS. SYLV3ST3R H3Y WHAT UP??
TH3 T3ST WAS A LITL3 HARD IT WAS NOT AS HARD AS I THOUGHT I WOULD B3 IT WAS KINDA 3ASY THOUGH I AM SO 3XCIT3D TO STUDY PLANTS. BUT I WILL MISS A W33K OF SCHOOL BUT I AM MAKING UP TH3 WORK WH3N I G3T BACK ISNT THAT COOL I CANT WAIT IT WIL B3 SO MUCH FUN WILL RIGHT TO YOU FROM CHURCH CAMP P3AC3!!!



♥ Monique =]