Lessons

Lessons

This page has the 10 lessons in this unit.

Use the subsequent pages to teach this unit.

Use the following pages to teach each lesson. 

• Lesson 1: Nature of Science: Fact, Laws and Theories

• Lesson 2: Adaptation = Smart Parts, Smart Moves, and a Process

• Lesson 3: Brainstorm a Bird

• Lesson 4: What is "Survival of the Fittest?"

• Lesson 5: Artificial vs. Natural Selection and Bird Beak Buffet

• Lesson 6: Change over Time

• Lesson 7: Mechanisms for Evolution 

• Lesson 8: Lines of Evidence for Evolution

• Lesson 9: Voyage to the Galapagos

• Lesson 10: Endemics and Evolution on the Olympic Peninsula

• Lesson Extensions: For accelerated, motivated, and "Science Push Program" students

Student pretests, posttests and retake tests are done on Edulastic.com.

Use these links to read the unit teacher's manual and learn about the design process used here.

• Biological Evolution Teacher's Manual

• Website Design Process Discussion

• Multimedia Product Design Process Discussion

Use these external links to learn more about biological evolution for middle school science:

• Next Generation Science Standards MS LS-4

• UC Berkeley Evolution 101