Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: The Virtual Greenhouse

For Students 3rd - 8th
A virtual greenhouse to study how plants adapt to live in different environments. Students will "plant" three different types of plants that thrive with different amounts of sunlight. Lab includes questions that could be saved and graded...
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Sharks

For Students 1st - 5th
This site is all about sharks including information on teeth, skeleton, diet, evolution, and more. Includes worksheets and printouts.
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Variations and Adaptations

For Students 3rd - 7th
Experiment with variations in grass to see which size grows best with different amounts of water. Understand that grass that can live in different levels and change to its environment has a better chance of surviving. Also, experiment...
Lesson Plan
Indiana University

Ensi: The Great Fossil Find Lesson Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students hear a story as they "find" bones that you have put in an envelope for them. Their job is to begin assembling the bones as best they can. The students will invariably come up with different configurations--just like scientists...
Handout
San Diego Zoo Global

San Diego Zoo: Birds

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides detailed information about birds, as well as several pictures.
Handout
Talk Origins Archive

Talk Origins: The Hominid Species

For Students 9th - 10th
Talk Origins gives a broad description of the types of Hominid species, and then gives a description of each species. Includes the specific characteristics of each, and explains the differences between the species.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Animal Mouths

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This collection of images of six different creatures, including insects and carnivorous vertebrates, illustrates the wide range of mouth types that exist within the animal kingdom. It also discusses the environment and its impact on the...
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PC Technology Guide

Pc Tech Guide: Motherboard

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore this site to gain a better understanding of motherboards. Detailed information about the evolution of motherboards, BIOS, form factors, CPU interfaces and more.
Handout
Other

Ancestral Flatworms

For Students 9th - 10th
Gives the history of flatworms and how they evolved. Gives the different types of flatworms, including the tapeworm.
Handout
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Structured Treatment Interruption

For Students 9th - 10th
Determine how studying the evolution of the HIV virus led medical experts to give patients a "holiday" from drugs, weakening the mutated, drug-resistent genes. Discover how this backward evolution works.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Woods Hole Oceanography Institute: Galapagos Animal and Marine Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out what types of animals Charles Darwin saw when he visited the Galapagos Islands. A slide show of animals and explanations for their evolution are also featured on this site.
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Mb Soft

Believe: Revivalism

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent overview of Revivalism with "General Information" and "Advanced Information". The site gives a description of the different types of Revivalism and its evolution from the 1800s to the present day. It also discusses the...
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Curated OER

Unesco: Iran: Masjed E Jame of Isfahan

For Students 9th - 10th
Located in the historic centre of Isfahan, the Masjed-e Jame ('Friday mosque’) can be seen as a stunning illustration of the evolution of mosque architecture over twelve centuries, starting in ad 841. It is the oldest preserved edifice...
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Curated OER

Unesco: Germany: Historic Centres of Stralsund and Wismar

For Students 9th - 10th
The medieval towns of Wismar and Stralsund, on the Baltic coast of northern Germany, were major trading centres of the Hanseatic League in the 14th and 15th centuries. In the 17th and 18th centuries they became Swedish administrative and...
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Cengage Learning

Investigating Social Change: Midwest

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the evolution of the Midwest region of the United States. Students and teachers will gain a different perspective about the Midwest when they check out this site.
Handout
University of Kentucky

Kentucky Geological Survey: How Is Coal Formed?

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the evolution of dead plant matter into coal.
Activity
University of California

Interactive Extreme Ultraviolet Skymap

For Students 9th - 10th
A map showing a view of the night sky is given; sources of extreme ultraviolet light are marked. Visitors analyze the spectrum from these parts of the sky and attempt to determine which star type the spectrum most closely resembles.
Unit Plan
Library of Congress

Loc: A Heavenly Craft: Woodcut in Early Printed Books

For Students 9th - 10th
Online exhibit that represents the evolution of the woodcut as illustration during the late Medieval and early Renaissance period. This exhibition explores the development in technique, composition, perspective, and coloration of the...
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Biology 4 kids

Biology4 Kids: Here Fishy Fishy

For Students 3rd - 8th
Identify the evolution of fish from 500 years ago to today. Find out the attributes of each of the four main types of fish.
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Other

Planetary Nebulae Observer Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
This home page is linked to detailed descriptions of nebulae types, shapes, and structures and their relationship to stellar evolution, a historical perspective on the discovery of nebulae, a gallery of images, and other related resources.