Teaching Evolution

Ideas for creating an Evolution Project based on the Think Tac Toe model.

A lesson plan for a hands on activity to reinforce the ideas of natural selection.

An edible, hands-on activity to help students understand the Hardy Weinberg Principle.

A lab for middle school or high school science classes simulating the relative dating of fossils.

A classroom activity that models radiometric dating of fossils using half-life.

A hands on activity modeling camouflage adaptations of prey and "survival of the fittest".

A lab activity based on the diversity of Darwin's Galapagos Finches.

A lab designed to show how cell membranes may have been made out of coacervates.

A hands on activity to make phylogenetic trees using the imaginary organisms called "caminalcules".

5 free online movie clips about Natural Selection for use in a classroom or by anyone who wants to learn the basics of Natural Selection. All movie clips are under 10 minutes long and would make a great supplement for teaching Natural Selection to middle school, high school, or adult learners.

Links to 5 free online video clips about the Scopes Monkey Trial

Short online video clips about some of the most famous evolutionary scientists and their discoveries.

A list of sites with good, free evolution lesson plans or labs.

A hands on activity demonstrating sexual selection and how it drives evolution.

Human Genetics Lab

Tips from the University of California at Berkeley on how to teach evolution.

PBS.com offers a free 8 lesson professional development course about the fundamentals of evolution and how to teach it.

The National Science Teachers Association's official position on teaching evolution in the science classroom.

Free evolution lesson plans for all ages from Discovery Education.