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Camouflage and Protective Coloration: A Model of Natural Selection

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Students study protective coloration and camouflage in animals. They create examples of each and conduct simulation-type experiments to determine which is the most effective adaptation.
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Curated OER

Diversity/Natural Selection

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars examine mechanisms behind biological evolution and the theories that feed it, and are able to demonstrate their knowledge of these theories in a story.
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Curated OER

Habitats and Adaptations

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students research and describe the habitat and adaptations of a reef animal. After the student is assigned a habitat, they design and draw a cresture adapted to eat each food and to live in each habitat.
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Classification and Binomial Nomenclature

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice identifying different groups of living organisms using a dichotomous key. Students also examine the history of an organism and its lineage by writing a paragraph about it and "three generations" of ancestors.
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PPT
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Natural Selection of Strawfish

For Teachers 7th
A sequence of pictures accompany a few statements that help define the differences between phenotype and genotype. The slides must be used to accompany a lecture as they do not really explain any concepts. The 5th slide is the most...
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Natural Selection

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students model natural selection by using various utensils to "capture food" using a simulated species called "Woolybooger's."
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EngageNY

Building Background Knowledge: How Canada’s Natural Resources Meet the Needs and Wants of People Today

For Teachers 5th Standards
Learners follow along as the teacher reads Products of Mining in Canada: From Batteries to Vehicles aloud. They then discuss the meaning of key terms and determine the gist of the text. Pupils do a second read and complete a graphic...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Lizard Lab

For Students 9th - 12th
For this detailed and comprehensive multi-day activity, budding evolutionary biologists use real data from lizard populations in the Canary Islands to examine evolution and natural selection. 
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Nuffield Foundation

Following Gene Transfer by Conjugation in Bacteria

For Teachers 9th - 12th
After the lab, you'll be able to solve this analogy: Natural selection is to vertical transfer of genes as ___ is to the horizontal transfer of genes. Young biologists conduct an experiment on E. coli bacteria to explore the process of...
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Curated OER

Nature Tribute

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore parts of nature. In this environmental lesson, students discuss how their actions can affect the environment and design a plan to clean up a specified area. Students practice good hygiene during the cleanup project.
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Organizer
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Fossils and Natural Selection

For Students 6th - 8th
In this fossils and natural selection worksheet, students will read a cause related to fossils and natural selection. Students will write in the effect of each of these causes. This worksheet has two questions.
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Curated OER

Summer Activities: The Wonders of Nature!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students examine the world of nature. In this early childhood lesson plan, students develop observation skills as they bird-watch and make rainbows, experimentation skills as they explore seeds and carrots, prediction skills as they...
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Curated OER

Exponential Reflections

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
High Schoolers explore the concept of exponential reflections. They use their Ti-Nspire to reflect the natural logarithm function over the line y=x. Learners repeat the process using different exponential functions using a slider.
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PPT
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Beyond Mendel's Laws of Inheritance

For Teachers 9th - 11th
Mendels laws of Genetics are extended here with examples of traits that are completely controlled by just one gene. Malfunctions such as albinism and baldness can therefore be tracked and will demonstrate inheritance patterns to your...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Speciation and Genetic Drift Worksheet

For Students 9th - 12th
Fifteen terms pertaining to speciation, extinction, and gene flow are to be matched to their definitions. This simple, easy-to-read worksheet can be used as a pop quiz for your biology learners when studying natural selection principles...
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Activity
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Discovering the Wallace Line

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
When studying locations of specific species, interesting patterns emerge. Young scholars discover this as they plot the location of specific species on a group of islands. Patterns emerge as they identify the Wallace Line. They then...
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Worksheet
Vanier College

Logarithmic Function

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
The instructional activity provides an extensive selection of questions regarding logarithm functions. Evaluating, rewriting, solving, and tons more topics are included in the instructional activity.
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Lesson Plan
Berkeley Engineering and Mentors

Darwin's Finches

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Try a twist on the old finch beak and chopsticks activity by using M&Ms on a Twister mat. Spoons, knives, forks, and chopsticks represent beaks and are randomly assigned to your little birds, who must collect as much food as possible...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Evolution Number Two

For Students 9th - 12th
Are you looking for evidence that your high schoolers are adapting to the concepts of natural selection and evolution? Assess their knowledge with a pretest and posttest. Naturally, you can select and adapt the worksheet to be the...
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Curated OER

Lamarck vs Darwin: Dueling Theories

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students, in groups, study cheetah, blind cave organisms, and naked mole rats to explain facets of evolution.
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Curated OER

Antibiotics: Will They Work?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine why antibiotics are important in everyday life. They examine the decisions that people make and how these decisions can artificially speed up natural selection in bacteria that cause infections such as group A...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

The Theory of Evolution

For Students 9th - 12th
In this theory of evolution worksheet, students review vocabulary words associated with evolution including the different types of evolution patters. This worksheet has 5 true or false and 5 matching questions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Adaptation and Mimicry - Biology

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students compare and contrast adaptations involving camouflage, warning coloration, and mimicry. They explain the relationship between adaptation and ability for survival and reproduction. Students define Batesian and Mullerian mimicry...
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Curated OER

The Value of Behavioral Variation in Homo sapiens

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students look at the behavioral characteristics of their peers from a historical perspective, and realize that, in the larger scheme of a community, these behaviors do have some value, and that a society as complex as ours does need the...

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