Week 1
Lesson 1
Biomes and adaptations
Three types of adaptations, what drives adaptations, ecosystems vs biomes, coniferous vs deciduous, and soil variation
 Week 2
Lesson 2
Extreme environmental adaptations 
Hydrothermal vent food web & symbiosis, extremophiles including tardigrades, chemoautotrophs, and bacteria in space
 Week 3
Lesson 3
Classifying Kingdom Animalia
Domains, kingdoms, animal phyla, characteristics, and binomial nomenclature
 Week 4
Lesson 4
Dichotomous keys and cladograms
Students will classify lizard models using a dichotomous key, and use a cladogram to answer questions about species shared characteristics 
 Week 5
Lesson 5
Embryology and homologies
Homologous structures, vestigial structures in animals and humans
 Week 6
Lesson 6
Analogous structures 
Analogous structures, environmental pressures, convergent evolution
 Week 7
Lesson 7
Speciation and reproductive isolation
Factors that drive speciation, species vs subspecies, allopatric, peripatric, parapatric, and sympatric speciation; disruptive, stabilizing, and directional selection. 
 Week 8
Lesson 8
Parthenogenesis and genetics
Punnett square, genotype, phenotype, alleles, homozygous, heterozygous, dominant, recessive, codominance & incomplete dominance, apomixis, genomic imprinting, epigenetics
 Week 9
Lesson 9
Life History Strategies
r-selected & k-selected life history strategies, types of survivorship curves, dependent & independent limiting factors, and carrying capacity
 Week 10
Lesson 10
Animal behavior and intelligence
Innate vs learned behaviors, measures of intelligence, altruism, and reciprocal altruism
 Week 11
Lesson 11
Keystone species and recently extinct species
Factors that lead to endangered status and extinction, the role of humans in conservation and repopulation, and recent examples
 Week 12
Lesson 12
Human impact and loss of biodiversity
Human impact on ecosystems and habitats, succession, causes of deforestation, biodiversity as an indicator of healthy ecosystems, current extinction statistics