<p><span style="font-size: 16px;">Choose your topic from the list below, then scroll down the page to look for the requirements for that topic and suggested resources. </span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Whale Evolution/Fossils</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Homologous Structures - Limbs</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Vestigial Structures - Human Appendix</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Embryology</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"><strong>Whale Evolution/Fossils</strong><br /></span><span style="font-size: 16px;">Assignment: Create a google presentation that includes the following:</span></p> <ol> <li><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4;">Brief Explanation of the evolution of whales</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4;">Pictures / Artists portrayal of ancestors of whales</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4;">Picture of the vestigial hind limb bones of whales</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4;">Definition of vestigial structures </span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4;"> YouTube Video clip of whale evolution (choose one of the two listed below)</span></li> </ol> <div><span style="font-size: 16px;">Suggested resources:</span></div> <div> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/education/explorations/tours/stories/middle/C7.html" rel="nofollow">Whale Evolution</a> - Visit this animated site and learn about how whales evolved</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCx-nwkj8fU">Whale Evolution Video Clip #1</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewtw_nZUIDQ">Whale Evolution Video Clip #2</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evograms_03" rel="nofollow">Evogram of Whale Evolution</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn16530-whale-evolution" rel="nofollow">Whale Evolution - From Land To Sea</a></span></li> </ul> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Homologous Structures - Limbs<br /></span></strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Assignment: Create a google presentation that includes the following:</span></p> <div><ol> <li><span style="line-height: 1.4; font-size: 16px;">Define Homologous Structures and explain why it is evidence of evolution </span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;"></span>Picture comparing limb bones</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="line-height: 1.4;">Define analogous structures and explain why they are </span><span style="line-height: 1.4;">not</span><span style="line-height: 1.4;"> evidence of a common ancestor</span></span></li> </ol><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4;">Suggested Resources:</span> </div> <div> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a style="line-height: 1.4;" href="http://www.bio.miami.edu/dana/160/160S13_5.html" rel="nofollow">Morphological Homology</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/homology_02" rel="nofollow">Homologous Structures - Understanding Evolution</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/04/2/l_042_01.html" rel="nofollow">Homologous Structures - PBS</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://itc.gsw.edu/faculty/bcarter/histgeol/paleo2/homol1.htm" rel="nofollow">Homologous Structures</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/similarity_hs_01" rel="nofollow">Homologous Structures - Understanding Evolution</a> click through the pages to learn about homologous structures</span></li> </ul> <span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"><strong>Vestigial Structures - Appendix</strong><br /></span></span> <div><span style="font-size: 16px;">Assignment: Create a google presentation that includes the following:</span></div> <div><ol> <li><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4;">Definition of vestigial structures </span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4;">Explanation of why the appendix is considered vestigial (explain what it was used for in our ancestors)</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4;">Picture of the vestigial appendix</span></li> </ol><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.4;">Suggested Resources:</span></div> <div> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a style="line-height: 1.4;" href="http://evolution.about.com/od/evidence/tp/Vestigial-Structures-In-Humans.htm" rel="nofollow">Human Appendix</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.livescience.com/21513-vestigial-organs.html" rel="nofollow">Vestigial Structures</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.smashinglists.com/10-remnants-of-human-body-we-no-longer-require/" rel="nofollow">Vestigial Structures</a></span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Embryology</strong><br /></span><span style="line-height: 1.4; font-size: 16px;">Assignment: Create a google presentation that includes the following:</span></p> <ol> <li><span style="line-height: 1.4; font-size: 16px;">Brief Explanation how embryology shows common ancestry</span></li> <li><span style="line-height: 1.4; font-size: 16px;">Picture Comparing Embryos</span></li> <li><span style="line-height: 1.4; font-size: 16px;">Embryology Video Clip - See below</span></li> </ol><span style="line-height: 1.4; font-size: 16px;">Suggested Resources:</span> <div dir="ltr"> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a style="line-height: 1.4;" href="http://necsi.edu/projects/evolution/evidence/embryos/evidence_embryo.html" rel="nofollow">Embryology - Explanation</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/04/2/l_042_03.html" rel="nofollow">Embryology - PBS</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAZmLYWEPGk">Embryology Video Clip</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://evoled.dbs.umt.edu/docs/similarity.gif" rel="nofollow">Picture Comparing Embryos</a></span></li> </ul> </div> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div><input name="sch-grade-item-max-points" type="hidden" value="100">