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.
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...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Natural Selection
Build a dam in the middle of an ecosystem and observe how the population of plants and animals adapt to their new environment with this science simulation. Learn how the populations adapt to survive in their new habitat. Then remove the...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ecosystems
This module offers an in depth study of the fundamental components of ecosystems. Activities include mini-lessons with videos and student assignments.
Other
Alfred Russel Wallace
A complete resource including a biography, chronology, examples of Wallace's published work, quotes, and interviews.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Biology: Evolutionary Biology
Through informational text, interactive activities, animations, and video clips, students investigate evolutionary biology.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Darwin Manuscripts Project
Background information and slideshow presentation on creating the Origin of Species scientific manuscripts.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Civil Environmental: Ecology I: The Earth System
College-level online course highlighting the fundamentals of ecology. Course topics include coevolution of the biosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere; photosynthesis and respiration; and the carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles....
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Natural Selection
Explore natural selection by controlling the environment and causing mutations in bunnies.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Natural Selection and Selective Breeding
Use the 5E model to learn about natural selection and selective breeding.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sex and the Single Guppy
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.
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: A Cow's Digestive System
Learn how a cow eats and digests food in this video segment from Nature.
Indiana University
Ensi: Introduction to Evolution Lesson Plan
This unit plan presented by the Evolution and the Nature of Science Institutes is one way to introduce evolution. The authors have created a Pre-test about what evolution is/is not to address misconceptions. There are handouts and...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Biology: Genetics
College-level course focusing on the principles of genetics. Course topics include structure and function of genes, chromosomes and genomes, biological variation, population genetics, use of genetic methods to analyze protein function,...
University of California
Ucmp: Thomas Malthus
University of California Berkeley offers a description of how Malthus' book "Essay on the Principle of Population" influenced Darwin and Wallace while they worked on their theories of natural selection.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Like Moths Around a Flame
In this activity, students will examine the historical natural selection model of peppered moths. Students can use the calculator to enhance their understanding of the model by analyzing patterns in long-term data of light colored and...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Being Darwin's Finches
For this biology activity, students will be investigating evolution by "competing" for food like Darwin's finches might have competed. Each student group is given a different type of "beak" to work with and there are also different kinds...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Observing Stabilizing and Directional Selection
In this biology lab learners will compare two sample populations of sunflower seeds. Comparison of the two populations will be done through the generation of a histogram for each population. One population will be black oil sunflower...
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Action Bioscience: The Challenge of Living at High Altitudes
Physical anthropologists are studying the ongoing evolution of modern humans. This article features research done on those living in high altitudes over thousands of years with the intention to discover things such as the role of natural...
Estrella Mountain Community College
Online Biology Book: The Modern View of Evolution
Take a closer look into the modern view of evolution. This article includes many pieces of evidence, all which support the theory of evolution.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Darwin and the Theory of Evolution
Students will be able to identify important ideas Darwin developed during the voyage of the Beagle, and give examples of his observations that supported those ideas.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Evolution Continues Today Can We Control It?
This article allows students to recognize that the process of evolution by natural selection continues to change our world and ourselves, both despite and because of our best efforts to control it.
BioMan Biology
Bio Man Biology: Angry Aliens: Evolution
Teach aliens about evolution as you play this game, and review your own understanding in the process. Topics covered include evolutionary mechanisms, evidence of evolution, natural selection, reproductive isolation, population genetics,...