Preschool-Kindergarten
Parts of a Whole
Classification: Sorting Objects
Variation
Who was Charles Darwin?
Grades 1-2-3
Classification 1: Living vs. Nonliving
Classification 2: Sorting Animals
Variation in Populations: Looking at a Population of Dandelions
Adaptation to Change: Seasonal changes
Adaptation: Camouflage—Advantages to Blending-In
Fossils and Extinction
Charles Darwin’s Adventures
Grades 4-5
Fossils: Making Your Own “Fossils”
Stratigraphy: Making Stratigraphic Layers and What We Can Learn From Them
Adaptation: Seed Dispersal Strategies
Variation: Exploring How Similar Organisms Vary in Different Habitats
Specialization: Beaks for Seeds
Charles Darwin and his Big Idea
Grades 6-7-8
Age of the Earth
Adaptation: How Populations Adapt (Or Fail to Adapt) to Environmental Changes
Descent with Modification
Selective Pressure and Natural Selection: Beanybugs in Slitland
Speciation: The Pollenpeepers at the PBS Website
Fossil Evidence for Evolution, Part 1
Fossil Evidence for Evolution, Part 2
How Charles Darwin Thought and What It Showed Him
Grades 9-10-11-12
Modern Species Descend from Older Species: Modes of Speciation
Variation in Domestic and Wild Populations
Adaptation: Growing Sun-Loving vs. Shade-Loving Plants
Natural Selection: Exercise with Coins Demonstrating Sexual Selection
Heredity
Tempo: Short Versus Long Time scales
Evidence and Inference
Darwin’s Life and Times: The Set-Up for Evolutionary Theory