| Lesson Title (Description) |
Grade Level |
Lesson Type |
Battle of the Beaks
Students learn about adaptive advantage, based on beak function, by simulating birds competing for various foods. |
6-8 |
Classroom activity |
Clipbirds
Students learn about variation, reproductive isolation, natural selection, and adaptation through this version of the bird beak activity. |
6-8 |
Classroom activity |
Connecting Population Growth and Biological Evolution
Students develop a model of the mathematical nature of population growth to consider the population growth of plant and animal species and the resulting pressure that contributes to natural selection. |
6-8 |
Classroom activity |
Darwin and Wallace: Natural selection
Darwin and Wallace came up with the idea of natural selection, but their idea of how evolution occurs was not without predecessors.
This article is located within History of Evolutionary Thought. |
6-8 |
Article |
