Session Date
Lesson Topic
History of Life on Earth
Lesson Outline
Describe primitive Earth in terms of chemical composition and land forms.
Discuss evidence.
Examine the Urey and Miller experiment testing for how life could have occurred without previous life.
Contrast to ideas of spontaneous generation and the work of Louis Pasteur.
Demonstrate how RNA could have been the first molecule of heredity and why?
Dicuss characteristics of life and the first organisms. Discuss how as the environment changed organisms evolved or went extinct.
Introduce Archeae and extremophiles.
Discuss evidence.
Examine the Urey and Miller experiment testing for how life could have occurred without previous life.
Contrast to ideas of spontaneous generation and the work of Louis Pasteur.
Demonstrate how RNA could have been the first molecule of heredity and why?
Dicuss characteristics of life and the first organisms. Discuss how as the environment changed organisms evolved or went extinct.
Introduce Archeae and extremophiles.
Assignment
Read pp. 553-555 in Biology text and answer questions from worksheet.
Session Minutes
120
Minutes Student Attended
120
Lesson Comments
Rowan was fine. We covered some comlex material but I hopefully presented it in a manner that will be assimilated. We really went slow but I think it was a good pace for him. I hope he enjoyed it.
Session Hours
2.00
Hours Attended
2.00
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