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Phylogenetic Trees Virtual Lab Worksheets | NGSS Evolution Inquiry Simulation
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Help your students explore evolutionary relationships with the Phylogenetic Trees Virtual Lab Activity with Guided Student Worksheets & Science Simulation!

Designed to promote scientific inquiry, this no-prep interactive virtual lab activity allows students to explore phylogenetic trees using an NGSS-aligned phenomena-based science simulation! The student worksheet guides students through the simulation to ensure comprehension and understanding, while also encouraging students to make predictions, observations, analyze data, and form conclusions. Check out the preview to see more!

Skills Students Will Practice:

⚗️Test their Pre-Existing Knowledge of Shared Animal Characteristics

⚗️Analyze how Organism Complexity & Genome Size are Related

⚗️Identify Common Characteristics across a Phylogenetic Tree

⚗️Describe how the Number of Shared Genes can predict Evolutionary Relationships

⭐ This Activity is Perfect for:

⚗️ Middle school and high school science lessons

⚗️ NGSS-aligned science instruction

⚗️ Virtual labs for blended, digital, or distance learning

⚗️ Sub plans, enrichment, or independent practice

NOTE: This activity links to the free Interactive from the Genetic Science Learning Center Website. Check it out below!

Phylogenetic Tree

Purchase includes the 3-page Student Worksheet (PDF), 3-page Teacher Answer Key (PDF), and 3-page Digital Student Worksheet (Google Slides) that is hyperlinked in the Teacher Answer Key.

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Phylogenetic Trees Virtual Lab Worksheets | NGSS Evolution Inquiry Simulation

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Teaching Duration
50 minutes

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Description

Help your students explore evolutionary relationships with the Phylogenetic Trees Virtual Lab Activity with Guided Student Worksheets & Science Simulation!

Designed to promote scientific inquiry, this no-prep interactive virtual lab activity allows students to explore phylogenetic trees using an NGSS-aligned phenomena-based science simulation! The student worksheet guides students through the simulation to ensure comprehension and understanding, while also encouraging students to make predictions, observations, analyze data, and form conclusions. Check out the preview to see more!

Skills Students Will Practice:

⚗️Test their Pre-Existing Knowledge of Shared Animal Characteristics

⚗️Analyze how Organism Complexity & Genome Size are Related

⚗️Identify Common Characteristics across a Phylogenetic Tree

⚗️Describe how the Number of Shared Genes can predict Evolutionary Relationships

⭐ This Activity is Perfect for:

⚗️ Middle school and high school science lessons

⚗️ NGSS-aligned science instruction

⚗️ Virtual labs for blended, digital, or distance learning

⚗️ Sub plans, enrichment, or independent practice

NOTE: This activity links to the free Interactive from the Genetic Science Learning Center Website. Check it out below!

Phylogenetic Tree

Purchase includes the 3-page Student Worksheet (PDF), 3-page Teacher Answer Key (PDF), and 3-page Digital Student Worksheet (Google Slides) that is hyperlinked in the Teacher Answer Key.

Looking for more Evolution Virtual Labs? Shop these products

⚗️ Flowering Plant Adaptations Guided Virtual Science Lab Activity

⚗️ Environmental & Genetic Factors Guided Virtual Science Lab Activity

⚗️ Extreme Adaptations Guided Virtual Science Lab Activity

⚗️ Common Ancestry Guided Virtual Science Lab Activity

⚗️ Natural Selection Guided Virtual Science Lab Activity

❗Permission is granted to copy pages specifically for student or teacher use only by the original purchaser or licensee. The reproduction of this product for any other use is strictly prohibited. Copying this product in any part and placing it on the Internet (even on a personal website) is strictly prohibited and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA).

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⭐ BE THE FIRST TO LEARN ABOUT NEW SCIENCE RESOURCES! ⭐

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NGSSMS-LS4-2
Apply scientific ideas to construct an explanation for the anatomical similarities and differences among modern organisms and between modern and fossil organisms to infer evolutionary relationships. Emphasis is on explanations of the evolutionary relationships among organisms in terms of similarity or differences of the gross appearance of anatomical structures.
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