Common Core: Changing/Conflicting Attitudes

Common Core: Changing/Conflicting Attitudes Goals: basic research and identification, Describe political systems, compare differing ideas/POV,

Charles Darwin: Adaptation was based on three characteristics

What is the idea behind Darwin’s statement, “survival of the fittest” (2)

Describe Social Darwinism* (3) It is NOT a teaching of Charles Darwin. ______CHEMISTRY: A Russian chemist, ______, organized what was being learned about atoms, into the “periodic table of elements”. It has grown much larger since he started it. Geology—Earth Science: ______suggested that the Earth was over a million years old. Later research suggests the Earth is some four and a half billion years old, but that life three and a half billion years old. Social gospel: Western Christian movement efforts included: (6)

• EC: Religion vs. Science. These ideas conflicted

______Theory ______Theory – accepted religious explanations that • Discoveries by anthropologists of prehistoric Earth is only a few thousand years animal and human bones and cave homes in since creation by God….. Neanderthal, in Germany, older than the religious teaching, spurred more research into the origins of human beings. • Tied with Darwin’s ideas, the scientific explanation is called, Charles Darwin: He backed up the evolution theory with the idea of ______ Life forms compete with each other for survival  Environment affected survival ability depending on the life forms ability to adapt (change)  Successful life forms passed on the new “traits” to their offspring. What did Charles Darwin Mean? (4) "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." ______What makes a person “better” than another? Victorian Thinking v. Modern Thinking The 19th Century (5) Today (7)

Use your text, reference sources (hard copy/digital.) You have 40 minutes to prepare.