Unit Plan
CPALMS

Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Do or Die: Extinction in a Changing World

For Students 9th - 10th
A Resource to help understand that concept of natural selection and to realize that organisms need to adapt to survive.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Competing Evolved & Engineered Digital Organisms

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students engineer and evolve digital organisms with the challenge to produce organisms with the highest fitness values in a particular environment. They do this through use of the free Avida-ED digital evolution software application. The...
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Evolution of Digital Organisms

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students are introduced to the concepts of digital organisms and digital evolution. They learn about the research that digital evolution software makes possible, and compare and contrast it with biological evolution.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Studying Evolution With Digital Organisms

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students observe natural selection in action and investigate the underlying mechanism, including random mutation and differential fitness based on environmental characteristics. They do this through use of the free AVIDA-ED digital...
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...
Handout
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Evolution: Lesson 3

For Students 7th - 8th
This lesson will introduce the concept of evolution and describe how and why organisms evolve.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Timeline of Evolution

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For life to evolve from simple single-celled organisms to many millions of species of prokaryotic species to simple eukaryotic species to all the protists, fungi,...
Graphic
PBS

Nova: Matching Aliens With Impacts

For Students 9th - 10th
One of the major causes of species extinction is the introduction of alien species. Information about ten different invasive species is presented. Find out how well you know the information by matching alien species with the effects...
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Other

Fossil Museum: Paleobiology

For Students 9th - 10th
This table is an overview of the appearance and extinction of major groups of organisms through geologic time.
Handout
University of California

Ucmp: Introduction to Trilobita

For Students 9th - 10th
One of the most famous fossil organisms, trilobites were once a complex group. Learn to tell them apart in this illustrated article that tells how they lived, their body structure, there place in evolution, and the like.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Competition

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this module students will study competition in the sense of organisms competing for the same space, food, or water for survival. Understand how interspecific...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Habitat Destruction

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] From a human point of view, a habitat is where you live, go to school, and go to have fun. Your habitat can be altered, and you can easily adapt. Most people live in...
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Other

Australian Government: Threatened Species and Ecological Communities

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the program that effects animals from becoming extinct. There are links to other organizations that work with the program.