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teachers domain [|intro td workshop] using TD in classroom folders and groups

Lesson on the Fly I chose to use the video that I watched from Kristen's resources that she found on the TD site to put together my lesson on the fly. I don't LOVE teaching evolution so I thought that having some new resources to teach this topic would help me have some more enthusiasm for it. [|Evolution Lesson on the Fly] there are several resources here that I can pick and choose to use, depending on the level and time period (regular block or 90 minutes period).

For **Frame**: I would tell the students that they are going to see scientists talk about evidence of evolution including fossil evidence, moelecular (DNA) evidence and a common ancestor. Before starting the video I would ask them to each write one or two "notes" of what they know about the evidence of evolution.
 * Focus**: I would ask the students to focus on(but not necessasrily answer as the video is short) 3 questions: 1)What is the differenece between a relative and an ancesteor? 2)How does the scientist describe the DNA evidence that the chimp shares DNA with the human? 3)what has the fossil evidence shown us?
 * Follow Up**- I would allow the students to work in pairs to use the focus questions to come up with a summary of what they watched.

This is just one way to use one of the resources from the evolution resources on TD, there are so many to choose from and I look forward to using TD for teaching evolution, which happens mid-spring. I am also sure that I will start going to TD earlier than mid-spring for other topics as well.

__11.1-Video from Teacher's Domain-__ This video is a fantastic way to show students that evolution through natural selection results in biodiversity, as the frogs have the genetic means to freeze for a period of time in order to survive cold conditions. We often talk about adaptations in a very general way, this video shows the students a real life connection to what happens with genetic variation. media type="file" key="lsps07_vid_frozenfrogs_350.mp4" width="300" height="300"

11.2 Obtaining Rights for Videos

11.3 OER There are so many fabulous finds on the Teacher's Domain site and on the OER site. This link is form a group of lessons to show students different ways that there is proof for the Theory of Evolution. This particular lesson (and there are a bunch that I really want to use- this may all come together in the unit plan!) is to connect to phylogeny, and comparitive anatomy to evolution. OER evolution link