1. Diversity of Life How are living things classified? Properties of Life

2. Maryland Science Content Standard Students will be able to provide examples and explain that organisms sorted into groups share similarities in external structures as well as similarities in internal anatomical structures and processes which can be used to infer the degree of relatedness among organisms

3. Objective: Students will assess what they already know about the diversity of life Title:Introduction to Diversity of Life Date:5/24/2015

4. Today Students Will… Watch an engagement video on the diversity of life. Take a pretest on the diversity of life. Go over the Unit Outline and discuss what they will be learning this unit. Complete the K and W section of a KWL on the diversity of life.

5. Engagement Video Diversity of Life

6. White Board Pretest Lets see what you already know! One person from your table gather the whiteboards and markers from your drawer. Answer the following questions as we go along on your white boardfollowing questions

7. KWL Today we will complete the K and W sectionsK and W sections As we go through the unit you are to answer questions in your wonder column By the end of the unit you should have answered your questions and included things that you have learned

8. Unit Outcome What is the expectation of this unit? Click here

9. Vocabulary Homework Be sure to be completing your homework daily. Repetition will help you remember the words. Your words can be found on the calendar weekly The words will be found in an Excel document

10. Conclusion: What do you predict we will learn in this unit? What are you the most excited to cover?