Content Videos (Lectures and animations to supplement lessons):
Interactives (Online activities for student interaction with content):
- Evolution 1o1 (student can access the nuts-and-bolts of evolution; including history of life, mechanisms, microevolution, speciation, macroevolution and bigger questions)
- A Brief History of Life (interactive overview of the history of life on Earth, from the earliest bacteria to the first modern humans)
- Explorations Through Time (series of interactive modules that explore the history of life on Earth, while focusing on the processes of science. Each module contains suggested lesson plans and an extensive teacher’s guide)
- Evidence: Human Evolution (students explore a case study in human origins)
- Natural Selection Simulation (online simulation for students to understand the process of natural selection)
- Exploring Evolution Web Lab (students click and explore evidences for evolution)
- Genetic Drift (animation about the process of genetic drift in evolution)
- Genetic Drift Simulation (In this activity, students will visualize evolution at a simple level and develop their intuition for the process of genetic drift)
- Speciation (in three interactive lessons, students explore species concepts looking at frog populations, the speciation of Fuchsia, and case studies involving speciation)
- Coevolution (students read about coevolution and how it occurs)
- Industrial Melanism: The Peppered Moth (students find out natural selection in black and white and how the peppered moth surprised naturalists in England)
Games (Online games for students to apply & test their content knowledge):
- Darwin’s Travels (students follow Darwin on three epic ocean journeys to gather evidence for the theory of evolution and meet the ship’s navigator who is on a quest of his own.)
- Snurfle Islands (students create a Snurfle with awesome adaptations and test his survival in several challenging island environments! Choose from wings, fire breath, extreme jumps and more! Students have fun while learning about natural selection and evolution!)
- Angry Aliens: Evolution (Angry aliens are invading earth! Students shoot the invaders while teaching them a thing or two about evolution! Their knowledge and shooting skills just might save the world! This review game allows students to have a blast while reviewing important evolution vocabulary!)
- Charles Darwin’s Game of Survival (Who wants to live a million years? Students play the game of survival and learn about Darwin and the process of Natural Selection)
- The Mating Game (in this version of The Dating Game, students must choose the right mate to pass on their genes to the next generation)
- Sex and the Single Guppy (professor John Endler traveled to Trinidad in the 1970s to study wild guppies. The guppies live in small streams that flow down the mountains from pool to pool. In this activity, students will take part in an online simulation of Endler’s work. They will collect data, formulate a hypothesis, and run a series of experiments. Students will find out about the interplay between natural selection and sexual selection in this wild population of guppies.)
- Cyberstranded 1 (students begin as a primitive single cell. As they struggle to survive they slowly evolve into higher and higher life forms. If they’re strong and smart, they may even evolve into a human!)
- Cyberstranded 2: The Re-Seeding Project (all living things on Earth have been wiped out in a nuclear disaster and only a handful of scientists survived because they were in space at the time. With futuristic technology they will attempt to spark the evolution of new life on Earth.)
- Cyberstranded 3: Humanoid Experiment (picking up where “CyberStranded 2” left off, Dr. Bruce Grey and his colleagues have been captured by a deviant species called the Humanoids and subjected to experiments intended to reverse human evolution. In a bizarre twist, students find out how Dr. Grey saves the day and prepares to battle the Humanoids on their own turf!)
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