Amoeba Sisters
Genetic Drift
Survival is a game of chance, catch my drift? Examine the factors that influence genetic drift with an entertaining video from a large biology playlist. The resource covers the myriad conditions that come into play when a species...
Bozeman Science
LS3A - Inheritance of Traits
Construct an inheritance unit that's pure gene-ius! Untangle the vast amount of information found in standard LS3A, Inheritance of Traits. The video shows examples and scenarios suited for all age and ability levels, as well as helpful...
Bozeman Science
LS4C - Adaptation
Learn how the study of adaptation progresses through grade levels. The narrator provides a curricular view of teaching adaptation complete with examples. Concepts range from simple trait adaptations to speciation and natural selection.
Teacher's Pet
History of Evolutionary Thought
Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace jointly created the theory of evolution by natural selection. The video explains the scientists that came before and after this pivotal moment. Many still debate why we often forget about Wallace...
Amoeba Sisters
Natural Selection and the Bacterial Resistance
Biological fitness involves the number of offspring you produce and is not dependent on working out. The video explains natural selection using cartoon graphics of frogs on a log. Then it introduces evolution through antibiotic...
Crash Course Kids
Wood, Water, and Properties
Why do bricks make terrible windows? Learn about how the different properties of matter, including transparency, reflectivity, and freezing, boiling, and melting points can help you observe what they are, as well as indicate their...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Thomas Hunt Morgan and Fruit Flies
Thomas Hunt Morgan's pioneering fruit fly work that helped validate the chromosomal theory of inheritance. [10:40]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Allele Frequency
Learn about allele frequencies in populations and how they differ from genotype frequencies. [7:27]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Dinosaur Train: Stomp Your Feet!
This Dinosaur Train video will help children foster the understanding of heredity: inheritance and variation of traits. Buddy and Daphne compare how they are similar and different. Included are printable dinosaur fact cards. [0:54]
Crash Course
Crash Course Biology #18: Population Genetics: When Darwin Met Mendel
Hank talks about population genetics, which helps to explain the evolution of populations over time by combing the principles of Mendel and Darwin, and by means of the Hardy-Weinberg equation. [11:03]
Crash Course
Crash Course History of Science #25: Genetics Lost and Found
Sometimes trailblazers of science aren't famous like Darwin or Pasteur. Sometimes they're humble Abbots, just growing peas in the back of their Abbey. This is the story of Gregor Mendel and how his work was done, lost, then found again....
Crash Course
Crash Course History of Science #23: Eugenics and Francis Galton
After Darwin introduced the world to the science of evolution, his cousin put his own spin on these theories. Francis Galton decided natural selection could be used to make the human race "better" and came up with Eugenics which led to...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Boveri Sutton Chromosome Theory
Overview of how chromosomes were first proposed as the carriers of Mendel's 'heritable factors' (what we now call 'genes'). [10:58]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Training Trees
Even basic evolutionary trees reveal insights into how different species are connected. Learn how to interpret and create them in this tutorial. [2:43]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Trait Theory
Learn how our traits make up our personality by taking a look at different psychologists' perspectives on how the Trait Theory came to be. [10:00]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: A Frill a Minute
An episode of "Dinosaur Train" discussing the traits of a triceratops that allow it to ward off potential predators. [12:30]