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Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Evidence for Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
With this article, students will be able to clarify the significance of a scientific theory and recognize that Darwin supported his theory with a great deal of evidence, and that many kinds of evidence since his time have further...
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University of California

University of California Museum of Paleontology: Fossil Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th
Understanding Evolution provides evidence for evolution using fossils. There are also links to lesson plans.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 4.6 Molecular Evidence

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the molecular evidence for evolution.
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Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Evolution Continues Today Can We Control It?

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Untamed Science

Untamed Science: Biology: Evolution: How to Become a Fossil

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about what a fossil is, the different types that scientists use for study, and processes that form them. [2:57]
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Indiana University

Ensi: The Great Fossil Find Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students hear a story as they "find" bones that you have put in an envelope for them. Their job is to begin assembling the bones as best they can. The students will invariably come up with different configurations--just like scientists...
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PBS

Pbs: Biogeography Polar Bears and Penguins

For Students 9th - 10th
From the Evidence for Evolution Library at PBS, this is a short article about biogeography. The distribution of animals is one source of evidence for Darwin's descent with modification.
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Great Transitions Interactive

For Students 9th - 10th
A Click and Learn that explores transitional fossils that provide key evidence for evolution. Use this slideshow to understand how small steps were required to make big evolutionary changes.
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National Health Museum

Nhm: Restriction Maps to Cladograms Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan requires students to analyze DNA restriction maps to determine the differences in the sequence for several primates and humans. They then use the information to create a cladogram.
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PBS

Pbs: Intimate Strangers: Tree of Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how Dr. Carl Woese used RNA to develop the tree of life.

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