| Lesson Title (Description) | Grade Level | Lesson Type |
A Long Time
The teacher puts up a timeline that shows students' age relative to geologic time. |
K-2 |
Classroom activity |
Extinction
Students are shown illustrations of living things and extinct life forms, which they compare and categorize as living or extinct. |
K-2 |
Classroom activity |
Adventures at Dry Creek
In this interactive web-based module students conduct a simulated field study at a fossil dig in Montana. |
6-8 |
Web activity |
Crocs, Then and Now
This lesson has students investigate the geographical distributions, habitats, and other features of modern crocodilians and SuperCroc. Students consider what can be learned about one species by studying the other. |
6-8 |
Classroom activity |
Dino-Data
Students are presented with a set of data about dinosaurs and are asked to make hypotheses about what the data can tell us. |
6-8 |
Classroom activity |
Interactive investigation: The arthropod story
This interactive investigation delves into the amazing world of the arthropods and examines their success and their evolutionary constraints. |
6-8 |
Web activity |
Interpreting the Tracks
Students discover the relationships among foot length, leg length, stride length and speed in bipedal animals that provide clues about dinosaur speed. |
6-8 |
Classroom activity |
Stories from the Fossil Record
This web-based module provides students with a basic understanding of how fossils can be used to interpret the past. |
6-8 |
Web activity |
What Came First?
Students sequence actual events in the history of life on Earth and place them on a large timeline. |
6-8 |
Classroom activity |
What did T. Rex Taste Like?
In this web-based module students are introduced to cladistics, which organizes living things by common ancestry and evolutionary relationships. |
6-8 |
Web activity |
Ancient fossils and modern climate change: The work of Jennifer McElwain
Wondering how global warming will affect our planet? Scientist Jennifer McElwain studies the fossil record in order to learn more about how global warming has affected life on Earth in the past and how it might affect life on Earth in the future. |
9-12 |
Article |
Evo in the news: Where species come from
Lush tropical ecosystems house many times more species than temperate or Arctic regions. This news brief from November 2006 discusses the evolutionary explanation for this diversity trend and reveals why threats to tropical ecosystems may threaten diversity on a global scale. |
9-12 |
Article |
Explore life on earth
This short video would make a nice, brief introduction to a more extensive discussion of the history of life and common ancestry. Using computer-generated graphics, it traces the tree of life from its roots in the very first cells up to the diverse life forms that inhabit the earth today. |
9-12 |
Video |
Fossil and Migration Patterns in Early Hominids
Students plot the distribution of major hominid taxa on a world map to hypothesize about the origin and movement of prehuman ancestors. |
9-12 |
Classroom activity |
From soup to cells - The origin of life
Delve into our current understandings of the origins of life and how scientists are able to investigate the details of such ancient events.
This article is located within Evolution 101. |
9-12 |
Tutorial |
Interactive investigation: The arthropod story
This interactive investigation delves into the amazing world of the arthropods and examines their success and their evolutionary constraints. |
9-12 |
Web activity |
It takes teamwork: How endosymbiosis changed life on Earth
You might be surprised to learn that descendents of an ancient bacterium are living in every cell of your body! Find out how endosymbiosis factored into the evolution of your own cells. |
9-12 |
Article |
It's All in Your Head: An Investigation of Human Ancestry
Students describe, measure and compare cranial casts from contemporary apes, modern humans, and fossil hominids to discover some of the similarities and differences between these forms and to see the pattern leading to modern humans. |
9-12 |
Classroom activity |
Solving the Mystery of the Neandertals
An interactive and engaging web activity that compares the number of mutations in the mitochondrial genomes to determine ancestry and relatedness. |
9-12 |
Web activity |
Stories from the Fossil Record
This web-based module provides students with a basic understanding of how fossils can be used to interpret the past. |
9-12 |
Web activity |
What did T. Rex Taste Like?
In this web-based module students are introduced to cladistics, which organizes living things by common ancestry and evolutionary relationships. |
9-12 |
Web activity |
