Curated OER
Elephants
Middle schoolers study elephants and the features they have that help to keep them cool. In this elephants lesson students research a feature of the elephant.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Changes in the Environment
An activity to help students understand that as the environment changes, plants and animals must evolve to stay alive. Students watch as a mystery plants grow in a changing environment to see if they will evolve or go extinct.
University of Arizona
University of Arizona: Genetic Drift Simulation
This site from the University of Arizona runs a two-step simulation of Genetic Drift. There are teacher's notes included. A great site to aid in understanding Genetic Drift.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Coelacanth: A Living Fossil of a Fish
Erin Eastwood details the surprising "back from the dead" discovery of the coelacanth and explains how this fish's fins shed light on the evolutionary movement of vertebrates from water to land. [4:17]
Other
My Science Box: Is It Alive?
A lesson plan that introduces middle schoolers to the concept of classifying objects as either living or non-living. From this lesson, students begin to think about the necessary characteristics of life.
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: Rewriting the Book of Nature
Explore the work of Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution. This comprehensive resource includes information about Darwin's life in addition to the process of species evolution.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Biology: Evolution: Chapter Test Practice
Fifteen multiple-choice test review questions covering evolution. Students have the opportunity to check their answers after submitting their results.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Biology: Evidence of Evolution: Self Check Quiz
Five multiple-choice quiz questions covering the evidence of evolution. Students have the opportunity to check their answers after submitting their results.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Biology: Shaping Evolutionary Theory: Self Check Quiz
This multiple-choice quiz on shaping evolutionary theory allows students to get hints for each question and check their answers after submitting.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Biology: Primate Evolution: Chapter Test Practice
Fifteen multiple-choice test practice questions covering primate evolution. Students have the opportunity to check their answers after submitting their results.
University of California
Understanding Evolution: The Big Issues
Visit some of the biggest questions that scientists try to answer about evolution.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Mechanisms of Evolution
When a population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, it is not evolving. Learn how violations of Hardy-Weinberg assumptions lead to evolution.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Natural Selection in Populations
How natural selection works at the level of genes, alleles, genotypes, & phenotypes.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Evolution Quiz
Take this interactive, multiple-choice quiz over evolution, then review your score and any missed questions at the end.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Evolution Quiz Ii
Take an interactive quiz over evolution. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Evolution Aqa
Evolution is the change of inherited characteristics within a population over time through natural selection, which may result in the formation of a new species. Fossils provide a record of organisms that lived a long time ago. They also...
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: How Do Species Change Over Geologic Time?
Find out about the ways that species change and evolve over time and generations.