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Activities
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Labs
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Links
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National
Standards
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Activities
- Show the NOVA
video "Dogs and More Dogs"
and
have students play the "From Wolf to Dog"
card game. It is not
necessary to see the video to do this activity.
- Watch the NOVA
video "Hawaii Born of Fire"
and have the
students do the accompanying activity.
- Have
students prepare arguements for a moot courst
case in this "Scopes Trial Activity."
- Students can
read this "Survival of the
Sneakiest"
cartoon and answer the questions that follow it .
- Here's
a board game for "Simulating Natural
Selection" .
- "The
Mating Game"
is an online
interactive game that shows how the selection of mates influences
evolution.
- The "Evolution
Lab" is an online natural
selection simulation. It
works well with students working independently at computers or using a
projector to show it to the class. Here is a worksheet
to go with the simulation.
- In "The Evolution Game"
you're a small
primate in the Eocene forests of 50 million years ago, but the world is
changing.
- Have
students do the "Evolution" wordsearch
puzzle .
Here's the
solution .
- Try
this "Peppered Moth"
activity.
- Or do this "Sex and the Single Guppy"
activity
with the accompanying worksheet.
- Do the
"Variation and Selection In the
Origami
Bird"
activity.
- "Anolis Lizards of the Greater Antilles:
Using
phylogeny to test hypotheses" is
a middle school activity
where the students "take a trip" to the Greater Antilles to figure out
how the Anolis lizards on the islands might have evolved.
- Play
Overman band's "Evolution
Rocks" for your
students. The words are included on
the site.
- Introduce the
theory of
"Coevolution"
with another of Sue Hinojoza's concept maps.
- ATeacher
Domain's lesson (You
must register for free to access.), "How Evolution Works,"
includes
videos, readings, and Flash
and Shockwave
interactive segments.
- Again from Teacher's
Domain,
"The Fossil Evidence for Evolution"
lesson, includes videos and readings.
- This
"Co-Evolution"
lesson from Teacher's
Domain has videos, readings, and Flash
interactive segments.
- The "How New Species Evolve"
lesson is
yet another Teacher's Domain activity.
It includes videos, readings, and Flash
interactive
segments as well.
- In the "Human Evolution"
lesson from Teacher's
Domain, videos, readings, and Flash
interactive segments are included.
- Try Mrs.
Rebello's
"Designasaurous"
activity with these dinosaur
skeletons .
- Or do Mrs.
Rebello's "Adaptation of the
Human Hand"
activity.
- "Teaching
About Evolution and the Nature
of
Science" has 7 chapters and 8
activities related to evolution.
- Play this "Evolution"
Jeopardy game with this key.
- "Chromosome Comparison 2"
is a
comparison of human and ape chromosomes.
- Gerald
Skoog of Texas Tech University developed
this "Solving the Puzzle"
activity. Darwin formulated his theory of evolution by
observing nature and analyzing evidence—or using the
scientific process. In this activity, student teams use
evidence (jigsaw puzzle pieces) revealed over time to gain knowledge of
the nature of science and its limitations.
- Judith
S. Nuo
contributed this "Evolution WebLabs"
activity where students
visit various tutorials on the web, write short commentaries about
them, and rate them.
- Show
the NOVA
video "Evolution:
Why Sex?" and use this
worksheet .
- Show this PowerPoint,
"Teacher's
Guide to: Evolutionary Theory,"
that has been converted to a YouTube
video. It is in the form of a quiz.
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Labs
- Simulate
natural selection with the "Candy Dish Selection"
lab.
- Introduce the
Hardy-Weinberg principle of
gene
frequency equilibrium with this "Breeding Bunnies"
lab.
This includes a data sheet (in pdf format), discussion questions (pdf),
and a student page.
- "Beans and Birds"
is another natural
selection simulation.
- And "The Chips Are Down"
is yet another
natural selection simulation.
- "Mimicry: an Example of Adaptation"
uses edible materials to demonstrate how a mimic acquires survival
advantage.
- This
"Evolution by Natural Selection" lab
in
or
includes teacher prepartion notes
in
or .
- Try
this peppered moth simulation
with worksheet
or try this peppered moth lab ,
contributed by Kim
Rebello.
- Do Mrs.
Rebello's "Natural Selection in
Goldfish"
lab using Pepperidge Farm's
cheddar and pizza
flavored "Goldfish."
- In the "Battle of the Beaks"
students learn
about adaptive advantage, based on beak function, by simulating birds
competing for various foods.
- In "Creating
Coacervates" students
mix a
carbohydrate solution with a protein solution, adjust the pH, and view
coacervates: amoeba-like objects, which change shape, flow, merge,
divide, form "vacuoles", release "vacuole contents", and show other
life-like properties.
- If
you are a member of NSTA, you can access "The Discovery of Jelly
bellicus,"
an activity that uses jelly beans to
explore natural selection.
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Links
- Receive the FREE five foot wide evolution poster - "Earth and Life: Changes Over Time" by filling and mailing this form.
- A great
series, Evolution
(7-part video series) using
or :
www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/educators/teachstuds/svideos.html
with this accompanying worksheet: www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/evolutionVIDEO.html
- Glencoe Section
Launcher video
(Windows Media Player): www.glencoe.com/sec/science/biology/bio2000/.
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- Evolution
in Action "Flash"
animation: www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/evolution-action.html
- Articles,
activities, and tutorials on
evolution: evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/search/search_lessons.php?sort_by=audience_rank&audience_level%5B3%5D=9-12&topic_id=13
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- Evolution
lessons: www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/evol.fs.html
- "Treasures of
Evolution Island" about the
Galapagos: whyfiles.org/125galapagos/index.html
- Understanding
Evolution: your one-stop
source for
informaiton on evolution: evolution.berkeley.edu/
- Scopes trial
background includes a "Trial
Jeopardy" game: law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm
- Natural
Selection At Work In Genetic
Variation To
Taste: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/06/040627223325.htm
- Early primate
evolution: anthro.palomar.edu/earlyprimates/default.htm
- PBS's
"An Origin of Species"
examines the evolutionary pathway known as adaptive
radiation: www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/darwin/orig
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- Get Howard
Hughes Medical Institute's "Evolution:
Constant Change and Common Threads" 2005 Holiday Lecture CD for free
at: www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/
- Arctic
fossils mark move to land: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4879672.stm
- "Evolution on
the Front Line: An
Abbreviated Guide
for Teaching Evolution" from Project 2061 at AAAS in
form: www.project2061.org/publications/.
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- "Understanding
Evolution" from The University of California with lesson plans: evolution.berkeley.edu/
- The
Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online: darwin-online.org.uk/
- The
Macaque Genome, a special online collection, contains an interactive
poster, lesson plans, and more: www.sciencemag.org/sciext/macaque/
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