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Curated OER
200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons
Students define the term "exoticism" and identify musical elements used by 19th and 20th century composers and modern pop icons to convey exoticism.
Curated OER
Vegetative Propagation Project
Students, in this project, successfully start new plants by various means of vegetative propagation.
Curated OER
Populations – The Survival of the Fittest (Part 1)
Learners explain in their own words why organisms live together. In this biology lesson, students model what happens to organisms if their environment changes. They explain the importance of evolution.
Curated OER
Ethical Decision Making in Biology
Students explore a model that illustrates the spread of HIV through an adolescent population. Acting in the role of epidemiologists, students explore the dilemmas of HIV infection presented by a simulation. Students produce a play, skit,...
PBS
Pbs: Nature: What Females Want, Wildlife and Sexual Selection
This two-part video series explores how females and males relate to each other in the animal kingdom. It shows how the strategies that males and females use to attract each other impact on the evolution of a species.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Sexual Selection
Wikipedia offers a site on the topic of sexual selection, including an image and a description of one of the most famous types of sexual selection.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Natural Selection
Scientific article explaining what natural selection is, and how it manifests itself through genetics and from generation to generation. Natural selection is compared to genetic drift, both of which cause evolution to occur. The limits...
McGraw Hill
The Mc Graw Hill Companies, Inc.: Adaptation
Evolution, natural selection, sexual selection, coevolution, convergent evolution, mimicry, and coloration, are the topics examined in this thorough site. Assess your comprehension of the material presented by delving into the learning...
PBS
Pbs Teachers:how Does Evolution Work?
Complete a hands-on lab simulation of natural selection to learn how it impacts a breeding population. Perform an online laboratory simulation and examine the interplay between natural and sexual selection in a population.
The Field Museum
Field Museum: Exhibits: Evolving Planet: Precambrian
This interesting tour examines how life began on earth, provides images of the first life forms, and delves into the role that photosynthesis sexual reproduction, and natural selection played in the the Precambrian period. Listen to...