Here's a topic classes can really dig—the fossil record. Use the well-organized and thoughtful road map to take eighth graders back in time to unearth the answer. Learn how our climate has changed, and how organisms have...

The second lesson in the series begins with a starter activity discussing wild versus domesticated animals. Then, scholars play a card game, with optional variations, to emphasize artificial selection. Next, they attend a field trip to a...

This Web quest from the PBS series "Evolution" will help you investigate a variety of types of evidence for evolution.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Even though two different species may not look similar, they may have similar internal structures that suggest they have a common ancestor. That means both evolved...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Chimpanzees and humans turn out to be very similar - if you look at their DNA. When scientists determined the entire genetic code of both humans and chimpanzees,...

Get ready to create your own definition based on scientific knowledge of evolution in this tutorial! This tutorial specifically explores the fossil record, cell's evolution, and homologies.

In this tutorial, students will identify the fossil evidence for the evolution of bipedalism then hypothesize about the evolutionary pressures affecting bipedal behavior.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses how evidence from living species provides clues about evolution.

A module explaining how two different organisms can possess similar traits by sharing a common ancestor(homology) or due to convergent evolution(analogy).

To look at the evolution of modern bird feathers, we must start a long time ago, with the dinosaurs from whence they came. Carl Zimmer explores the stages of evolution and how even the reasons for feathers have evolved over millions of...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Fossils are the preserved remains of animals, plants, and other organisms from the distant past. By studying fossils, evidence for evolution is revealed....