Please put away all cell phones and electronic devices during the period today.

Journal Entry:

Imagine a marine animal that matches your personality in some way. What phylum are they part of? What are some significant features of this animal?

Learning Intentions  

• We will learn how to create cladograms and use them to better understand groups of organisms.

• We will learn what features marine organisms have in common and what they have different to understand evolutionary relatedness

Closing task:

You can draw and label a cladogram for the major marine organisms.

Content Standards being covered:

• HS-LS1-2: Develop and use a model to illustrate the hierarchical organization of interacting systems that provide specific functions within multicellular organisms.