Benchmark: SC.912.L.15.8 Describe the scientific explanations of the origin of life on earth.
Objective: Students will investigate current theories about the origin of life.
DEQ: How does science help us explain how all life, including us, came to be?
Agenda:
ENGAGE: "Mystery Detective"
EXPLORE: Article Jigsaw (covers Alexander Oparin, Louis Pasteur, Harold Urey, Stanley Miller, Lynn Margulis, and Sidney Fox's contributions to the Theory of the Origin of Life on Earth).
EXPLAIN: Cornell Notes + Section 12.4 - "Early Single-celled Organisms"
EXTEND: Question Set 14 A/B
EVALUATE: 5QAs
Vocabulary: endosymbiosis, primate, hominid, fossil record, geologic time scale
