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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Shape of Trees: The Frustration Principle

For Students 9th - 10th
This series of images shows the work of biologist Karl Niklas on the adaptations and evolution of plants. From The Evolutionary Biology of Plants.
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BioMan Biology

Bio Man Biology: Evolution and Classification Quizzes

For Students 9th - 10th
A multiple-choice quiz on the mechanisms of 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: Darwin's of Natural Selection: Self Check Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Try these five multiple-choice quiz questions about Charles Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection.
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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: Primate Evolution: Standardized Test Practice

For Students 9th - 10th
Fifteen multiple choice questions over primate evolution. After the quiz, the self-checking feature allows students to see which were the correct answers.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Biology: Organizing Life's Diversity: Chapter Test Practice

For Students 9th - 10th
A fifteen question chapter review covering concepts of the classification of life.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Biology: The History of Classification: Self Check Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Answer these five multiple-choice questions about the history of classification of living things. After answers are submitted, students can review their mistakes.
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Other

Biology Simulations: Natural Selection

For Students 9th - 10th
This simulation explores the survival of prey species individuals based on their coloring and the environment.
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Biology Corner

Biology Corner: Fossil Record

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students use the fossil record to understand the topics of speciation, punctuated equilibrium, and gradualism. Students arrange fictitious animals' fossils by age based on appearance to create a fossil record.
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: A Brief Summary of Lamarck's Theory of Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses Lamarck's theory of evolution, which was developed before Charles Darwin's own theory, and how it fared over time. The core ideas in Lamarck's theory are described and his theory and Darwin's are compared. Lamarck's ideas...
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: 4 Basic Modes of Speciation Show How Species Evolve

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what the four main modes of species formation are - allopatric, parapatric, peripatric, and sympatric speciation - and provides examples. A fifth possible mode, stasipatric speciation, is also discussed.
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PBS

Pbs Nova: What Is Evo Devo?

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientists can still be surprised! The genetic ingredients that assemble us are similar to those that assemble a fly. NOVA explains the emerging science of evolution developmental biology. This is the science that studies genes at the...
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University of California

Ucmp: Island Biogeography and Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a lesson designed by a biology teacher. In it, students use maps and evidence of island age, molecular genetics, morphology, and distance apart to determine how the islands came to be occupied by different species of lizards. It...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Jaws and Teeth of Mammals

For Students 9th - 10th
This image from Biology by Kenneth R. Miller and Joseph Levine illustrates the relationship between structure and function by comparing the jaws and teeth of two animals with very different ways of life: the wolf and the horse.
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Other

Principia Cybernetica Web: Punctuated Equilibrium

For Students 9th - 10th
Starts with a definition of Punctuated Equilibrium, followed by an explanation of this "Observation," and how it fits with other evolutionary theory.
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Texas A&M University

Eco Systems: Story Time: Stephen Jay Gould

For Students 9th - 10th
See how Stephen Jay Gould's early interest in baseball influenced his thought process as a scientist.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Darwin, Evolution, and Faith

For Students 9th - 10th
Can ancient scriptural accounts of the world's creation by God be reconciled with Darwin's new story? This article looks at three responses to this question: Conflict, Contrast, and Convergence.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Macroevolution

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Constrasts gradualism and punctuated equilibrium.
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Harvard University

Harvard Gazette: Paleontologist Gould Dies at 60

For Students 9th - 10th
Stephen Jay Gould, "The bulldog of evolutionary biology," is honored here by Harvard University, where he spend his teaching and writing career. Mention of articles, books, and awards, plus quotes from colleagues, offer an engaging view...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Evolution of Animal Genitalia

For Students 9th - 10th
Genitals are the fastest-evolving organs in the animal kingdom. Menno Schilthuizen explains how the evolutionary biology of nature's nether regions uncovers a hidden world of seduction, conflict, and rivalry.
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American Institute of Biological Sciences

Action Bioscience: Species, Speciation and the Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
The American Institute of Biological Sciences offers this article by Niles Eldredge, evolutionary theorist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History. Eldredge begins with Darwin's theories and summarizes subsequent thought,...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Pruney Fingers: A Gripping Story

For Students 9th - 10th
Why do fingers become pruney when they get wet? Mark Changizi examines the evolutionary reasons for pruney fingers, while exploring natural and manmade phenomena, like river networks, that operate similarly. [4:22]
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Biology 4 kids

Biology4 Kids: Evolution

For Students 3rd - 8th
Read a brief, but clear description of the three evolutionary processes that occur in species over time.