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Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Darwin's Legacy

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures dedicated to study Charles Darwin's legacy. The course was hosted at Stanford University. The lectures cover a broad range of topics from evolution vs. creationism, Darwin's life and work, social Darwinism,...
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Animals: Animal Adaptations

For Students 3rd - 5th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of animal adaptations, that look at physical and behavioral adaptations.
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Unit Plan
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...
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Other

Ms. Inselberger's Ap Bio Blog: Why Evolution Is True

For Students 9th - 10th
In Mr. Coyne's discussion of natural selection, he also illustrates the idea of "adaptive behavior". In full detail, he describes the Asian Giant hornet and all of its physical attributes with which it brutally devours the introduced...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs the Life of Birds: Bills, Beaks and Food

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan explores how natural selection has influenced the development of features that contribute to successful feeding (bills, wings, talons, etc.), as well as identifying those characteristics that enable birds to obtain the...
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Unit Plan
W. W. Norton

W. W. Norton & Company: How Humans Evolved

For Students 9th - 10th
This provides access to a webbook about How Humans Evolved. The following topics are covered: (1) How Evolution Works, (2) Primate Behavior and Ecology, (3) The History of Human Lineage, and (4) Evolution and Modern Humans. Each chapter...
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Sex and the Single Guppy

For Students 9th - 10th
Play in our streams and see how exhibitionism has an evolutionary payoff in this simulation of John Endler's famous experiment. Includes background information and discussion questions.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Themes: Morality: Why Do People Do Bad Things?

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of Grade-Leveled texts (3-12) to address the question Morality: Why do people do bad things? Select a grade level and a collection of on grade-level reading passages on the topic comes up. [Free account registration...
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Handout
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Happiness Is a Warm Puppy

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Investigate behaviors, characteristics and habits of various breeds of dogs, and select a breed of dog that would best fit your lifestyle. Create a picture book from a dog's point of view.