Teaching Resources - Understanding Evolution

Found 19 resources:

Del caldo primigenio a las células: El origen de la vida

Grade Level(s):

9-12

Source:

UC Museum of Paleontology

Resource type:

Tutorial

Time: 20 minutes

Overview

Profundiza en los conocimientos actuales sobre el origen de la vida y en cómo los científicos y las científicas son capaces de investigar en los detalles de acontecimientos tan antiguos.

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From soup to cells – The origin of life

Grade Level(s):

9-12

Source:

UC Museum of Paleontology

Resource type:

Tutorial

Time: 20 minutes

Overview

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.

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ChronoZoom

Grade Level(s):

13-16

Source:

The ChronoZoom Team

Resource type:

Infographic

Time: 1-6 hours

Overview

"Big History" is the currently active effort to bring together in a unified way all of the information about the past, both humanistic and scientific. One of the problems for anyone teaching Earth history or Big History is how to help students (or anyone) to comprehend the time scales. This series of graphic panels helps address this challenge by presenting Big History in a sequence of time scales.

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Stories from the Fossil Record

Grade Level(s):

6-8
9-12

Source:

UC Museum of Paleontology

Resource type:

Online activity or lab

Time: One to two class periods

Overview

This web-based module provides students with a basic understanding of how fossils can be used to interpret the past.

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Tree of Life

Grade Level(s):

9-12
13-16

Source:

Tree of Life

Resource type:

Interactive

Time: 1 class period

Overview

This interactive web resource allows you to follow any branch on the tree of life to find out how scientists hypothesize all the species on Earth (plus some extinct lineages) are related to one another.

This resource appears at the Tree of Life website.

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It takes teamwork: How endosymbiosis changed life on Earth

Grade Level(s):

9-12
13-16

Source:

UC Museum of Paleontology

Resource type:

Article

Time: 30-40 minutes

Overview

You might be surprised to learn that descendants of an ancient bacterium are living in every cell of your body! Find out how endosymbiosis factored into the evolution of your own cells and learn about a modern example of this process.

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Interpreting the Tracks

Grade Level(s):

Source:

UC Museum of Paleontology

Resource type:

Classroom activity

Time: Two to three class periods

Overview

Students discover the relationships among foot length, leg length, stride length and speed in bipedal animals that provide clues about dinosaur speed.

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Interactive investigation: The arthropod story

Grade Level(s):

6-8
9-12

Source:

UC Museum of Paleontology

Resource type:

Online activity or lab

Time: 3-4 class periods

Overview

This interactive investigation delves into the amazing world of the arthropods and examines their success and their evolutionary constraints.

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Hominid Cranium Comparison (The “Skulls” Lab)

Grade Level(s):

9-12
13-16

Source:

ENSI

Resource type:

Classroom activity

Time: One to two class periods

Overview

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.

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Understanding Macroevolution Through Evograms

Grade Level(s):

9-12
13-16

Source:

UC Museum of Paleontology

Resource type:

Article

Time: 1 hour

Overview

Evograms convey information about how a group of organisms and their particular features evolved. This article explains how to read evograms and delves into the evolutionary history of whales, tetrapods, mammals, birds, and humans.

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Extinction

Grade Level(s):

Source:

Janulaw, Sharon

Resource type:

Classroom activity

Time: 20 minutes

Overview

Students are shown illustrations of living things and extinct life forms, which they compare and categorize as living or extinct.

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Evo in the news: Where species come from

Grade Level(s):

9-12
13-16

Source:

UC Museum of Paleontology

Resource type:

Evo in the News article

Time: 15 minutes

Overview

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.

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Evo in the news: Oxygen as an evolutionary constraint

Grade Level(s):

9-12
13-16

Source:

UC Museum of Paleontology

Resource type:

Evo in the News article

Time: 30 minutes

Overview

This news brief from November 2009 focuses on how changes in atmospheric chemistry may have factored into the evolution of life on Earth, specifically, life's quadrillion-fold growth spurt from microscopic bacteria to organisms the size of the blue whale.

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Dino-Data

Grade Level(s):

Source:

UC Museum of Paleontology

Resource type:

Classroom activity

Time: Two class periods.

Overview

Students are presented with a set of data about dinosaurs and are asked to make hypotheses about what the data can tell us.

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Ancient fossils and modern climate change: The work of Jennifer McElwain

Grade Level(s):

9-12
13-16

Source:

UC Museum of Paleontology

Resource type:

Research profile

Time: 40 minutes

Overview

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.

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