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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Evidence for Evolution Web Quest

For Students 9th - 10th
This Web quest from the PBS series "Evolution" will help you investigate a variety of types of evidence for evolution.
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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Evidence for Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the evidence for evolution: anatomy, molecular biology, biogeography, fossils, & direct observation.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Evolution: Fossils Quiz

For Students 6th - 8th
Take this interactive, multiple-choice quiz over fossils, then review your score and any missed questions at the end.
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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Theory of Evolution Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide looks at Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection. It also looks at some of the evidence supporting the theory of evolution (comparative...
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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Theory of Evolution Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the evidence for the theory of evolution.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Tetrapod Limbs

For Students 9th - 10th
This illustration from Evolution by Monroe W. Strickberger shows the remarkable similarities between the bones in the forelimbs of various tetrapods, all of whose limbs serve very different functions.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Fossils

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how fossils help us understand the past.
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Handout
Other

Evidence for Evolution: Fossil Record

For Students 9th - 10th
These pages are part of a site called "Evolution," that accompanies a textbook by the same name. Mark Ridley is the author. In this section he discusses how fossil records provide undeniable examples of evolutionary change.
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eBook
Other

The Evidence for Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
These pages are part of a site called "Evolution," that accompanies a textbook by the same name. Mark Ridley is the author, and in this section he discusses the evidence for evolution.
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Evolution Aqa

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Handout
CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Evolution: Examining the Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th
Strengthen understanding of how different types of scientific evidence support the theory of evolution, including direct observation, fossils, DNA, biogeography, and comparative anatomy and embryology.
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Lesson Plan
Indiana University

Ensi: The Great Fossil Find Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students hear a story as they "find" bones that you have put in an envelope for them. Their job is to begin assembling the bones as best they can. The students will invariably come up with different configurations--just like scientists...
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Handout
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Riddle of the Bones

For Students 9th - 10th
At the online companion Web site of "Evolution," the seven-episode series on PBS, piece together clues to how one of our early ancestors looked as you examine images from four significant fossil finds of Australopithecus afarensis.
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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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Graphic
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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Handout
Other

Bio Web Evolution: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from BioWeb Evolution was originally created as a ThinkQuest entry, and it has some good basic information about evolution. This page is on fossils and geologic time.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Digging for Fossils: Studying Fossils as Evidence for Human Evolution

For Teachers 9th - 10th
As students dig for paper fossils, they make observations of brain size, teeth, hands, thumbs, trunks, pelvis, foot and big toes to determine characteristics of chimpanzees and humans. Then, they dig up and analyze a new fossil...
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Article
American Institute of Biological Sciences

Action Bioscience: Evidence of Evolutionary Transitions

For Students 9th - 10th
Charles Darwin's theory that all living organisms are connected in some way has been confirmed through intense studies over centuries. Understand the similarities that bond all things living to the same family tree by checking out this...
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Whales in the Making

For Students 9th - 10th
This graphic from Evolution, traces the evolution of whales from land-dwelling mammals to the aquatic creatures we know today. A PDF is included that diagrams the evolutionary process that is believed to have taken place.
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Website
Other

Exploring Origins Project: Exploring Life's Origins

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore life's evolutionary history on the planet through molecular illustrations and animations. Pictorial evidence is based on origin of life research and theory.
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Website
Texas A&M University

Eco Systems: Story Time: Stephen Jay Gould

For Students 9th - 10th
See how Stephen Jay Gould's early interest in baseball influenced his thought process as a scientist.
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Article
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Early Tetrapod Fossils

For Students 9th - 10th
In this transcript of an interview filmed for the PBS series "Evolution," scientists Ted Daeschler and Neil Shubin describe the discovery and significance of some of their key fossil finds.
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Handout
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Fossils in the Gobi

For Students 9th - 10th
Biologist Mike Novacek discusses his discovery of mammal fossils in the Gobi Desert and tells us what we can learn from them. From an episode about extinction broadcast on the PBS series "Evolution."
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Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Studying the History of Life

For Students 9th - 10th
This in-depth article illustrates the concept of geologic time, and helps the learner understand why fossils are rare.