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Visionlearning: Biology: Galapagos Finches

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive animation illustrates how Charles Darwin used his study of finch beaks to explain evolution. A phylogenetic tree diagram shows how the birds' color and beak shape changed over generations.
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Visionlearning: Biology: Charles Darwin Ii: Natural Selection

For Students 9th - 10th
Instructional module focusing on Charles Darwin's explanation of natural selection as the mechanism for evolution. Discusses how this force of natural selection promotes changes in species over time. Site also includes an interactive...
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Vision Learning

Visionlearning: Biology: Adaptation: The Case of Penguins

For Students 9th - 10th
Instructional module focusing on why species change over time through behavioral and physical adaptations. Discusses how environmental mechanisms influence adaptive evolution. Site also includes an interactive practice quiz and links...