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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Changes in the Environment

For Students 3rd - 5th
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.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Religion & Science

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Myths and Misconceptions About Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
How does evolution really work? Alex Gendler sets the record straight on the finer points of evolution, including some common evolutionary misconceptions.
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Article
American Institute of Biological Sciences

Action Bioscience: Evolution: Fact and Theory

For Students 9th - 10th
The theory of evolution is a theory which gives an explanation to a variety of known facts that justify the changes of nature over time. Explore the facts and theory offered in this article.
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Handout
Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Evolutionary Biology: Agassiz, Louis

For Students 9th - 10th
Biography of Louis Agassiz, a natural historian and a contemporary of Charles Darwin. He was most famous for developing his theory of an Ice Age. Agassiz argued vehemently against the theory of evolution, based on his interpretations of...
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Lesson Plan
Museums Victoria

Melbourne Museum: Evolution

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Although this is an education kit intended to accompany an exhibition on evolution at this museum. it is useful for high school Biology classes for its excellent background information on the latest ideas about the theory of evolution,...
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Unit Plan
University of California

University of California Museum of Paleontology: Welcome to Evolution 101

For Students 9th - 10th
What is evolution? This thorough site provides the basics of evolution focusing on the history of life, processes of evolution, microevolution, macroevolution, and more.
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American Association for the Advancement of Science

Aaas: Project 2061: Topic: Evolution and Natural Selection

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Create a science test that checks for student understanding in science, for common misconceptions, as well as for correct ideas. This is a list of key ideas related to Evolution and Natural Selection....
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Evolution of Life

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Meet Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution and natural selection. Understand why adaptations are important.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Animal Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Pursue several opportunities to explore the way animals have evolved over time and what has caused them to change.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Biology: Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Through informational text, online lab activities, virtual simulations, and video clips, students study the concepts of biological evolution.
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Handout
Other

National Academies Press: Science, Evolution, and Creationism

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource allows learners to read the book online for free. A group of experts explain the fundamental methods of science, document the overwhelming evidence in support of biological evolution, and evaluate the alternative...
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Unit Plan
CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Florida Fossils: Evidence of Evolution

For Students 6th - 8th
See how fossils have shown evidence of evolution throughout the history of the Earth.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Studying Evolution With Digital Organisms

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students observe natural selection in action and investigate the underlying mechanism, including random mutation and differential fitness based on environmental characteristics. They do this through use of the free AVIDA-ED digital...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Competing Evolved & Engineered Digital Organisms

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students engineer and evolve digital organisms with the challenge to produce organisms with the highest fitness values in a particular environment. They do this through use of the free Avida-ED digital evolution software application. The...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Evolution of Digital Organisms

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars are introduced to the concepts of digital organisms and digital evolution. They learn about the research that digital evolution software makes possible, and compare and contrast it with biological evolution.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Introduction to Evolutionary Computation

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students are introduced to the concepts of evolution by natural selection and digital evolution software. They learn about the field of evolutionary computation, which applies the principles of natural selection to solve engineering...
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Online Course
Yale University

Open Yale Courses: Principles of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior

For Students 9th - 10th
Access any one of thirty-six lectures from a biological sciences course, in audio, video, and text format. Coverage includes evolution, natural selection, the fossil record, the history of life on Earth, ecological communities,...
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Activity
University of California

Ucmp: Island Biogeography and Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a lesson designed by a biology teacher. In it, students use maps and evidence of island age, molecular genetics, morphology, and distance apart to determine how the islands came to be occupied by different species of lizards. It...
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Article
BBC

Bbc: Week of 12 23 13: Neanderthals Could Speak Like Modern Humans

For Students 9th - 10th
How do you imagine Neanderthals to have sounded? Have you ever considered that they might sound like you? Read this article to explore what a new study now says about the speaking capabilities of these creatures.
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Activity
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Lizard Evolution Virtual Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
Students explore the evolution of the anole lizard in this virtual lab. Students will collect and analyze data during the virtual lab that focuses on evolutionary biology and includes adaptation, convergent evolution, phylogenetic...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Forces of Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students will explore the factors that lead to evolution such as genetic mutation, gene drift and gene flow.
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Website
PBS

Pbs: Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the PBS Evolution site, including excellent information on Darwin, Change, Extinction, Survival, Sex, Humans, and Religion.
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Website
University of California

University of California Museum of Paleontology: Understanding Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents extensive information for learning about and teaching evolution including an in depth course "Evolution 101", teaching materials, and a resource library.