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Lesson Plan
National Health Museum

Nhm: Amino Acid Sequences Show Evolution

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan focuses on differences in the amino acid sequence of hemoglobin and myoglobin proteins. They use the number of differences to create a phylogenetic tree.
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Handout
Other

Evolution: Evidence From Living Organisms

For Students 9th - 10th
By examining fossils, scientists have collected evidence that supports the theory that species changed over time. As you read this article, study this evidence and critically evaluate whether it indicates that species may have arisen by...
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Lesson Plan
National Health Museum

Nhm: Restriction Maps to Cladograms Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan requires students to analyze DNA restriction maps to determine the differences in the sequence for several primates and humans. They then use the information to create a cladogram.
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Article
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Synapomorphy

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what synapomorphy is by using examples to demonstrate the concept, which plays an important role in the system of cladistics.
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Website
Lin and Don Donn

Lin and Don Donn: Ancient China

For Students 3rd - 8th
This large site is a personal site from teachers Don and Lin Donn that contains information on life during the Shang & Chou Dynasties. It is divided into sections about: family, ancestor worship, oracle bones, kings and nobles,...
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Handout
Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Hyracotherium

For Students 9th - 10th
This site briefly unravels the ancestry of the modern horse from the Hyracotherium.
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Handout
Other

Cosmic Ancestry/the Second Law of Thermodynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
The differences between thermodynamic entropy and logical entropy are explained, especially how they relate to the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy in biology is also discussed.
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Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Ancestor Bust of Pa en Djerty

For Students 9th - 10th
This sculpture came to light during the clearing of a Theban tomb belonging to Amenmose, who was the Royal Scribe of the Altar of the Two Lands. The name of the tomb owner does not appear on this bust, which depicts his father,...
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Unit Plan
Digital History

Digital History: Explorations: The Puritans

For Students 9th - 10th
No group has played a more pivotal role in shaping American values than the New England Puritans. The seventeenth-century Puritans contributed to our country's sense of mission, its work ethic, and its moral sensibility. Today, eight...
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Handout
University of Utah

University of Utah: learn.genetics: Foundational Toolkit Genes

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains how the eyes of very diverse species have a common genetic ancestry.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Use Dna Sequencing to Trace the Blue Whale's Evolutionary Tree

For Students 9th - 10th
Around 50 million years ago, the mammalian ancestor of today's whales returned to the ocean. In this genomics science fair project, you will use mitochondrial protein sequencing to trace the evolution of whales and identify their closest...
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Primary
US National Archives

Our Documents: Executive Order: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese

For Students 9th - 10th
Summarizes the background behind this order that moved people of Japanese ancestry to relocation centers in 1942. Provides a link to an image of the original document and a copy of the text.
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Article
Society for Science and the Public

Science News for Students: King of Gore

For Students 3rd - 8th
Article reports on the recent discovery of Lythronax argestes, an ancestor to the Tyrannosaurus rex. Includes a list of vocabulary words.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers:america's Stone Age Explorers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Discover how mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is inherited, and complete a pedigree chart by determining which individuals might share mtDNA with an unknown ancestor.
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Handout
Other

Life on Australian Seashores: Molluscs

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a very basic look at the anatomy of a mollusk including the proposed anatomy of what the mollusc ancestor probably looked like. Hyperlinks to individual animals in the mollusk group.
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eBook
Syracuse University

Oneida Community Collection: John Humphrey Noyes: The Putney Community

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides the online text to a biography about John Humphrey Noyes. It is divided into three sections: his ancestry and early life, the Putney Community, the Oneida Community.
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Unit Plan
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of the American Indian: African Native American Lives

For Students 9th - 10th
A fascinating exhibition on the history of Americans of both African American and Native American ancestry. The exhibit looks at policies and laws that affected them, how they have formed and managed communities, their resistance...
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Website
Curated OER

Cbc: The Great Human Odyssey: Homo Sapiens: Child of the Ice Age

For Students 9th - 10th
A fascinating look at where humans came from. The interactive journey begins in Ethiopia over four million years ago with our ancestor, Ardipithecus ramidus. It continues at intervals along a timeline up to the present. The journey is...
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Website
University of Washington

University of Washington: Camp Harmony Exhibit

For Students 9th - 10th
In the spring of 1942, just months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, more than 100,000 residents of Japanese ancestry were forcefully evicted by the army from their homes in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona and Alaska, and sent...
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Human Origins: Human Family Tree

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the human ancestor you are interested in and click on it either in the timeline or the list below for more details. Each fossil or reconstruction pictured includes links to more details about it.
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Kennewick Man: Science and Sacred Rights

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Excellent, thought-provoking lesson plan on the controversy over the remains of what is known as the Kennewick Man. Should they be considered as remains of a Native American ancestor and thus be buried or should scientists be allowed to...
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Handout
Globio

Glossopedia: Skates and Rays

For Students 3rd - 8th
There are more than five hundred different species of skates and rays in our oceans. Scientists say that these fish are closely related to sharks, sharing a common ancestor from around 400 million years ago. This article provides an...
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eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Aeneid by Virgil

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the full text of the Latin epic poem Aeneid by Virgil that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans.
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Article
British Library

British Library: 20th Century: An Introduction to Andrea Levy's Small Island

For Students 9th - 10th
Andrea Levy's "Small Island" is a story of post-war Caribbean migration, narrated from four different perspectives. Hannah Lowe explores how the novel is intrinsically linked with Levy's own Caribbean ancestry, as well as how it has...

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