Building the Evidence Case: Synthesis Across Scales: Science Unit 8, Grade 7 (Letters & Devotion)

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Building the Evidence Case: Synthesis Across Scales is Unit 8 of Life Science: Systems, Energy, and Change (Grade 7), the Letters & Devotion Science course, complete in one printable PDF: 9 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 57 pages.

• Homologous structures as evidence of common ancestry
• Convergence of multiple independent lines of evidence (multi-scale evidence argument)
• Patterns of change, diversity, and extinction in the fossil record
• The six evidence categories used to build a multi-scale argument
• Common ancestry versus alternative explanations for shared traits
• Convergence and contradiction among lines of evidence in a written argument
• An original multi-scale evidence argument for a chosen species pair
• Predictions of disconfirming or confirming multi-scale evidence for an unfamiliar species claim
• Cumulative vocabulary from Units 1-7

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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