Change Over Time (Schedule)

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'Change Over Time' Semester Schedule

Week 1
 Change in populations: gene pool, allele frequency, selection pressures
Learning Activity (1) - Giraffe Balloons
Week 2
 Natural selection as a mechanism for evolution
Learning Activity (2) - Hummingbird Beak
Week 3
 Geological time scale: relative and actual dating techniques
Learning Activity (3) - Geological Timescale
Learning Activity (4) - Geological Sandwich
Week 4
 Evidence of evolution: fossil records, biogeography, comparative anatomy, molecular evidence
Learning Activity (5) - Fieldtrip to Exposed Cliff
Week 5
 Patterns of evolution: divergent, convergent etc.
Week 6
 Development of evolutionary theory
Week 7
 Evolutionary relationships: conservation of genes, genome phylogeny, mitochondrial evolution
Week 8
 Hominid evolution
Learning Activity (6) - Hominid Evolution
Learning Activity (7) - Proposed Trajectories of Human Evolution
Week 9
 Biological, cultural and technological evolution (inter-relationships)
Week 10
 Human intervention in evolutionary processes: selective breeding, gene technologies
Learning Activity (8) - Bioethics Debate
Learning Activity (9) - Selective Breeding Research Task