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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Elephants

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students study elephants and the features they have that help to keep them cool.  In this elephants lesson students research a feature of the elephant. 
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Changes in the Environment

For Students 3rd - 5th
An activity to help students understand that as the environment changes, plants and animals must evolve to stay alive. Students watch as a mystery plants grow in a changing environment to see if they will evolve or go extinct.
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Handout
University of Arizona

University of Arizona: Genetic Drift Simulation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Arizona runs a two-step simulation of Genetic Drift. There are teacher's notes included. A great site to aid in understanding Genetic Drift.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Coelacanth: A Living Fossil of a Fish

For Students 9th - 10th
Erin Eastwood details the surprising "back from the dead" discovery of the coelacanth and explains how this fish's fins shed light on the evolutionary movement of vertebrates from water to land. [4:17]
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Lesson Plan
Other

My Science Box: Is It Alive?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A lesson plan that introduces middle schoolers to the concept of classifying objects as either living or non-living. From this lesson, students begin to think about the necessary characteristics of life.
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Website
National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine: Rewriting the Book of Nature

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the work of Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution. This comprehensive resource includes information about Darwin's life in addition to the process of species evolution.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Biology: Evolution: Chapter Test Practice

For Students 9th - 10th
Fifteen multiple-choice test review questions covering evolution. Students have the opportunity to check their answers after submitting their results.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Biology: Evidence of Evolution: Self Check Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Five multiple-choice quiz questions covering the evidence of evolution. Students have the opportunity to check their answers after submitting their results.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Biology: Shaping Evolutionary Theory: Self Check Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
This multiple-choice quiz on shaping evolutionary theory allows students to get hints for each question and check their answers after submitting.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Biology: Primate Evolution: Chapter Test Practice

For Students 9th - 10th
Fifteen multiple-choice test practice questions covering primate evolution. Students have the opportunity to check their answers after submitting their results.
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Handout
University of California

Understanding Evolution: The Big Issues

For Students 9th - 10th
Visit some of the biggest questions that scientists try to answer about evolution.
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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Mechanisms of Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
When a population is in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, it is not evolving. Learn how violations of Hardy-Weinberg assumptions lead to evolution.
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eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Natural Selection in Populations

For Students 9th - 10th
How natural selection works at the level of genes, alleles, genotypes, & phenotypes.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Evolution Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Take this interactive, multiple-choice quiz over evolution, then review your score and any missed questions at the end.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Evolution Quiz Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
Take an interactive quiz over evolution. After completing the quiz, check your score, and then revisit any incorrect question for further review.
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Unit Plan
BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Evolution Aqa

For Students 9th - 10th
Evolution is the change of inherited characteristics within a population over time through natural selection, which may result in the formation of a new species. Fossils provide a record of organisms that lived a long time ago. They also...
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Article
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: How Do Species Change Over Geologic Time?

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the ways that species change and evolve over time and generations.