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Category: Evolution
Biointeractive has a huge amount of great resources for evolution. I use the …
The Beak of the Finch (HHMI) Video Worksheet
When I ask my biology students to tell me what they know about …
Exploring Phenotypic Plasticity in Arctic Foxes
Most advanced biology classes won’t go into great deal on individual groups within …
Compare Body Plans of Protostomes to Deuterostomes
Students explore bunny selection with this PHET interactive activity. Observe bunny populations change …
Explore Bunny Selection and Mutations with PHET
Our curriculum includes a section on invertebrates and vertebrates that usually follows the …
Invertebrate Diversity Lab Station Activity
The word cladogram comes from the Greek word “clados” which means branch, and …
Constructing Cladograms: Fly and Heloderma
I recently shifted the evolution unit to second semester, to be taught after …
Mutations and Evolution in Aquatic Mammals
Students learn how to construct a cladogram with this guided learning activity. I …
Construct a Chordate Cladogram – Guided Learning
This case study was written from a primary source which analyzed two populations …
Speciation on Daphne Major – Big Birds Get No Love
I use this simple worksheet helps students distinguish between allopatric and sympatric speciation. …
Speciation Modes – Reinforcement
If you have used the phenomena from Biointeractive on lizards in a hurricane, …
Lizards in a Hurricane
Kettlewell’s observations about the changed in peppered moth populations as as a result …
Peppered Moth Game
Students learn about Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium by exploring a virtual population of koi fish. …
Population Genetics
This worksheet was created during the Covid-19 pandemic to be administered remotely on …
Snake Evolution
This activity was designed for students during the COVID-19 pandemic and is intended …
Speciation Modes
This activity was created for students to complete on their own during the …
Hardy Weinberg Squirrels
This activity was created during the Covid-19 pandemic for students to complete at …
Bear, Species, & DNA
In this activity, students access a database called UniProt that provides information about …
Evolution of Caffeine
This worksheet was created for a NOVA program called “Dog Tales” which explores …
Dog Tales – NOVA
This activity gives AP students the opportunity to work with the protein database: …
Are Bats Birds?
Though Next Generation Science Standards does not emphasize the memorizing of major groups …
Practice with Taxonomy
This earthworm lab is a revised version of the observation lab that I …
Investigation: Earthworm
High school biology classrooms often lack the time and resources to do long …
DataClassroom
This activity was created for an introductory biology class and is less involved …
Natural Selection Sim 2
Students are given a description and an example of a cladogram showing the …
What is a Cladogram?
Students can practice using the Hardy Weinberg equilibrium equation to determine the allele …
Hardy Weinberg Problemset
This chart is used as a graphic organizer to help students understand the …
Evolution – VIDA chart
This worksheet was designed for an introductory biology class where students are exposed …
Reinforcement: Evolution
This film was based on a book “The Lion in Your Living Room“, …
The Lion in Your Living Room
Students examine a phylogenetic tree which has questions for them to discover how …
Phylogenetic Tree – Canines
Students read about how elephant populations declined over a century due to the …
African Elephant – Change Over Time
A set of images show how rabbits change over time as a result …