Green Anole Lizard Assessment

11.A Construct and revise an explanation using a model to explain why a change to the environment (cause) leads to a predominance of certain genetic variations of traits in a green lizard population that increase some individuals’ probability of surviving and reproducing (effect).

11.A Construct and revise an explanation using a model to explain why a change to the environment (cause) leads to a predominance of certain genetic variations of traits in a green lizard population that increase some individuals’ probability of surviving and reproducing (effect).

This is a transfer task to give students an opportunity to use the three dimensions to make sense of their General Model for Natural Selection using a new phenomenon. Allow students to choose how to share their understanding through oral response, written response, pictorial response, or a combination of both. For specific scoring guidance, use Key: Green Anole Lizard Explanation.

This is meant to be a summative assessment task for this lesson set, and it gives you a grading opportunity. The task includes a scoring guide located in Key: Green Anole Lizard Explanation. Scoring guides are meant to highlight important ideas students should include in their responses. If students share these ideas If students share these ideas at other points in the assessment, it is up to you to decide if that understanding is sufficiently demonstrated. Students will continue to use these ideas in the next two lesson sets.