Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Effects of Natural Selection on Finch Beak Size
In this activity, students examine research on finches on the island of Daphne Major in the Galapagos Islands. The depth of the finches' beaks was measured before and after a drought. This data is displayed in graphs and students are...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Overview of the basic concepts behind evolution.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Evolution: Natural Selection
The concept of interdependence in an ecosystem and its effect on the evolution of populations is further explored through a model of a dam. Students build a dam in the middle of the field, dividing the ecosystem in half to illustrate the...
Other
Clermont College: Natural Selection and Speciation
Discusses natural selection and explains this theory in detail in reference to the evolution of the peppered moth. Discusses how the forces of natural selection lead to other kinds of speciation and evolutionary processes.
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St. Bonaventure University: Evolution and Origins of Disease
Learn about natural selection and the defenses that are built in to the human body. Topics include pathogens and the evolution of defenses.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Confliction Selection Pressures
Investigate how selection pressures and natural selection influence populations growth with this computer model. Understand how a population changes when selection pressures are in conflict. Perform the virtual lab to see what happens to...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Darwin, Evolution, & Natural Selection
Examine Charles Darwin's voyage on the HMS Beagle and his ideas about evolution and natural selection.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Natural Selection and Evolution
Darwin's theory of evolution explains how species of living things have changed over geological time in order to survive in the changing environment. A link to a test is provided.
Other
Evolution: The Theory of Natural Selection (Part 1)
These pages are part of a site called Evolution that accompany a textbook by the same name. Mark Ridley is the author. This section has an advanced discussion of determining allele and genotype frequencies using the Hardy-Weinberg ratio.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Evolution of Life
[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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University of Montana: Teach Evolution and Make It Relevant
A description of the process of evolution explaining the Hardy-Weinberg Principle and the mechanisms that cause it. Also the website contains links for lessons on simulation of the natural selection process in the classroom and how the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Studying Evolution With Digital Organisms
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...
Yale University
Open Yale Courses: Principles of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
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,...
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection
Darwin's theory of natural selection and his ideas about evolution are explained here.
Other
University of Connecticut: Natural Selection Simulation
This page has a Java simulation that demonstrates allele frequency and natural selection. Choose various numbers for this simulation and run the experiment.
Other
Explore Learning: Natural Selection Gizmo
You are a bird hunting moths (both dark and light) that live on trees. As you capture the moths most easily visible against the tree surface, the moth populations change, illustrating the effects of natural selection. (Free usage is...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Theory of Evolution Study Guide
[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...
National Earth Science Teachers Association
Windows to the Universe: An Example of Evolution by Natural Selection
Examples of natural selection processes are well documented in life forms that have very rapid life cycles such as bacteria.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Mechanisms of Evolution Beyond Natural Selection
Gene pools can change as a result of genetic drift and other mechanisms. This tutorial will investigate how gene pools change and evolve.
University of California
University of California Museum of Paleontology: Understanding Evolution
This resource presents extensive information for learning about and teaching evolution including an in depth course "Evolution 101", teaching materials, and a resource library.
PBS
Pbs: Nature: What Females Want, Wildlife and Sexual Selection
This two-part video series explores how females and males relate to each other in the animal kingdom. It shows how the strategies that males and females use to attract each other impact on the evolution of a species.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Myths and Misconceptions About Evolution
How does evolution really work? Alex Gendler sets the record straight on the finer points of evolution, including some common evolutionary misconceptions.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Biology: Evolution
Through informational text, online lab activities, virtual simulations, and video clips, students study the concepts of biological evolution.
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Biology: Evolution
Discover what evolution is through a case study of a Hawaiian snail species' survival. [7:20]