Rob Russell's List: Evolution

• examine the evidence and arguments that support this theory.
  
  
• Jean Baptiste Lamarck, Alfred Russel Wallace, and Charles Darwin.
  
  
• not come away from this lesson thinking that Lamarck and Wallace were inferior  scientists because the former's theory was incomplete and the latter did not  receive public acclaim.
• • Good section on common student misconceptions about the theory of evolution
• • Formative assessment
• • I like the range of ideas presented for this project. The only problem would be creating a rubric to grade everything on the same scale.

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• . It is in high school that an explanation for the diversity in living things  itself must come to light.
• And natural selection, being the mechanism (or cause) of evolution must also be  understood.
• • Seems to be a way to lower conflicting interests on the topic of evolution. I am not a proponent of keeping "Darwin" out of my lessons.
• misconceptions about natural selection:
• • Lab reports will serve as a summative assessment for the day's lesson.

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• • Need to insure that the kids know that cladograms are NOT chronological, and that they can be turned on their nodes. They are only displaying relational information.
• • Would have to get access to this article before performing this assignment.
• • Summative assessment

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