Activities
- Show the NOVA video "Dogs and More Dogs" and
have students play the "From Wolf to Dog"
 card game. It is not
necessary to see the video to do this activity.
- Watch the NOVA video "Hawaii Born of Fire" and have the
students do the accompanying activity.
- Have
students prepare arguements for a moot courst
case in this "Scopes Trial Activity."
- Students can read this "Survival of the Sneakiest"
cartoon and answer the questions that follow it
 .
- Here's
a board game for "Simulating Natural
Selection" .
- "The Mating Game" is an online
interactive game that shows how the selection of mates influences
evolution.
- The "Evolution
Lab" is an online natural selection simulation. It
works well with students working independently at computers or using a
projector to show it to the class. Here is a worksheet to go with the simulation.
- In "The Evolution Game" you're a small
primate in the Eocene forests of 50 million years ago, but the world is
changing.
- Have
students do the "Evolution" wordsearch
puzzle . Here's the
solution .
- Try
this "Peppered Moth" activity.
- Or do this "Sex and the Single Guppy" activity
with the accompanying worksheet.
- Do the "Variation and Selection In the Origami
Bird" activity.
- "Anolis Lizards of the Greater Antilles: Using
phylogeny to test hypotheses" is a middle school activity
where the students "take a trip" to the Greater Antilles to figure out
how the Anolis lizards on the islands might have evolved.
- Try this "Early Theories of Evolution"
crossword puzzle.
- Play "Evolution
Rocks" for your students. (You can save the song by
right-clicking on the link and selecting "Save Target As.")
It was written and performed by the Overman
band. You can also listen and get a copy of the words here.
- Introduce the theory of "Coevolution"
with another of Sue Hinojoza's concept maps.
- ATeacher
Domain's lesson (You
must register for free to access.), "How Evolution Works," includes
videos, readings, and Flash and Shockwave
interactive segments.
- Again from
Teacher's Domain, "The Fossil Evidence for Evolution"
lesson, includes videos and readings.
- This
"Co-Evolution" lesson from Teacher's
Domain has videos, readings, and Flash
interactive segments.
- The "How New Species Evolve" lesson is
yet another Teacher's Domain activity.
It includes videos, readings, and Flash interactive
segments as well.
- In the "Human Evolution" lesson from Teacher's
Domain, videos, readings, and Flash
interactive segments are included.
- Try
Mrs.
Rebello's "Designasaurous" activity with these dinosaur
skeletons .
- Or do Mrs.
Rebello's "Adaptation of the Human Hand" activity.
- "A Fossil in Time" is a great
WebQuest for exploring relative dating, absolute dating, and geological
history.
- The
"Galapagos" Teacher's Resource Guide has several activities about the
islands.
- "Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of
Science" has 7 chapters and 8 activities related to evolution.
- Play this "Evolution"
Jeopardy game with this key.
- "Chromosome Comparison 2" is a
comparison of human and ape chromosomes.
- Gerald
Skoog of Texas Tech University developed
this "Solving the Puzzle"
activity. Darwin formulated his theory of evolution by
observing nature and analyzing evidence—or using the
scientific process. In this activity, student teams use
evidence (jigsaw puzzle pieces) revealed over time to gain knowledge of
the nature of science and its limitations.
- Judith
S. Nuño
contributed this "Evolution WebLabs"
 activity where students
visit various tutorials on the web, write short commentaries about
them, and rate them.
- Show
the NOVA
video "Evolution:
Why Sex?" and use this worksheet .
Labs
- Simulate natural selection with the "Candy Dish Selection" lab.
- Introduce the Hardy-Weinberg principle of gene
frequency equilibrium with this "Breeding Bunnies" lab.
This includes a data sheet (in pdf format), discussion questions (pdf),
and a student page.
- "Beans and Birds" is another natural
selection simulation.
- And "The Chips Are Down" is yet another
natural selection simulation.
- "Mimicry: an Example of Adaptation"
uses edible materials to demonstrate how a mimic acquires survival
advantage.
- This
"Evolution by Natural Selection" lab
in or includes teacher prepartion notes
in or .
- Try
this peppered moth simulation with worksheet or try this peppered moth lab , contributed by Kim Rebello.
- Do Mrs.
Rebello's "Natural Selection in Goldfish"
lab using Pepperidge Farm's cheddar and pizza
flavored "Goldfish."
- In the "Battle of the Beaks" students learn
about adaptive advantage, based on beak function, by simulating birds
competing for various foods.
 In "Creating
Coacervates" students mix a
carbohydrate solution with a protein solution, adjust the pH, and view
coacervates: amoeba-like objects, which change shape, flow, merge,
divide, form "vacuoles", release "vacuole contents", and show other
life-like properties.- If
you are a member of NSTA, you can access "The Discovery of Jelly
bellicus,"
an activity that uses jelly beans to
explore natural selection.
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