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Battle of the Beaks
Students explore adaptive advantage, based on beak function, by simulating birds competing for various foods.
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FOOTSTEPS IN TIME
Learners measure and correlate their foot lengths and body heights, then use this data to estimate height of Laetoli hominids. They use metric measurement and graphing to determine these heights.
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WHAT, IF ANYTHING, IS A ZEBRA?
Learners read the essay, "What, If Anything, Is a Zebra?" following a teacher made reading guide. They investigate cladistics, shared derived characteristics, with further online research to enhance their study of evolution and...
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Comparison of Human and Chimpanzee Chromosomes
Students actively engage in the careful analysis of chromosome banding patterns and identify examples of inversion in homologous chromosomes.
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Birds of a Feather Flock to the Web
Students define the term "evolution" and relate it to species adaptation, supporting their ideas with examples. They locate, correctly cite, and briefly review two Web sites with information on finches commonly found in their state or count
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The Lost World (4 parts)
Tenth graders view this science fiction adventure, though not scientifically accurate, creates opportunities to explore the extinction of dinosaurs and to explore evolution.
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Thanksgiving: Bird Evolution
High schoolers explore the evolution of birds. In this biology lesson, students research articles that discuss evidence about the ancestry of birds. They discuss their findings with the group and draw a journal magazine cover...
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Primate Characteristics and Exaptation
High schoolers compare the features of gorilla to humans. In this biology lesson, students simulate adaptation using materials found in the classroom. They explain what exaptation means.
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Evolution of the Peppered Moth
Seventh graders complete a timeline about the evolution of the peppered moth. In this biology lesson, 7th graders write an essay about how human can affect evolution. They share their essay with the class.
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Natural Selection in Action
Learners demonstrate natural selection through a lab activity. In this biology lesson, students explain how natural selection leads to speciation. They complete their lab report and discuss results in class.
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Hide and Survive: A Natural Selection Activity
Students explore the theory of natural selection given certain scenarios. In this biology instructional activity, students graph data taken from the experiment. They explain the factors that contribute to the survival of the fittest.
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Evolution: Is It Fact and/or Theory?
Learners explore the concepts of evolution. In this biology activity, students read articles from the internet. They discuss the article within the group and answer their handouts.
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Evolution Explorations
Students compare characteristics of animals and human beings. In this biology lesson, students observe an animal and record their observations. They infer whether the evolution theory is true or not.
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Evolution
Students create a timeline on the history of evolution. In this biology lesson, students research their assigned scientist's contribution to evolution theory. They write a three-paragraph analysis about the timeline.
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Word Adaptation
Seventh graders differentiate evolution and adaptation. In this biology instructional activity, 7th graders make new words from a given word by adding or changing a letter. They set up a T-chart and enumerate how adaptation is like or...
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Bermuda: Search for Deep Water Caves 2009: Out of Darkness
Students analyze the three models on the origin of troglobitic fauna. In this life science activity, students also consider how the Zonation model explains the fauna's origin. They also use the Internet to research solutional and...
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Walking Whales
Eighth graders explore the theory of evolution of whales. In this walking whales lesson plan students study a reading packet, divide into groups and respond to given questions.
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Introduction to Biology
Young scholars examine the principles of natural selection and explain how it is the basis of the theory of evolution. In this natural selection lesson students research the web on the theory of evolution.
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Adapting to the World
Students consider dog breeds that are helpful to humans and their hereditary link to wolves. In this biology lesson plan, student research a dog breed for traits that make it useful to humans. Students write a report of how these traits...
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Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
Students examine the relationship between temperature and brightness. For this astronomy lesson students will correlate the evolution of stars to the HR diagram plotted.
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Physics at the Zoo
Students visit a local zoo and answer physics questions that are a part of zoo life. In this zoo physics lesson plan students answer questions that have to do with the physics of animal size, their center of gravity and how animals travel.
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Natural Selection and the Peppered Moth
Learners study natural selection and its process in the peppered moth. For this evolution lesson, students read about the concept of natural selection as suggested by Charles Darwin. Learners then complete a natural selection simulation...
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Exploring the Uses of Beaks
Students explore the uses of bird beaks in the wild by participating in experiment stations. In this bird adaptation lesson, students work in groups and complete experiment stations that represent different types of bird beaks. Students...
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Becoming Human
In this evolution worksheet, high schoolers access a specific website and then answer questions about human evolution based on what they discovered at the website. This worksheet has 19 short answer questions and 3 essay questions.