Evolution
These materials are links to web sites external to the STEM eLibrary. They offer useful teaching and learning activities on evolution. Information goes wider than the curriculum, so that users are able to develop a deeper understanding.
BBC Science and Nature: prehistoric life
The BBC's Science and Nature website provides a wealth of resources for teaching students about life on prehistoric Earth and the beginning of modern humans including news articles, picture galleries, information and facts, scenes from TV and radio series and quizzes and games.
Galapagos education
The Galapagos Education website contains a host of activities that will provide an entertaining option for teaching students about ecology and evolution. Activities provide students with the opportunity to see, hear, and learn about the island wildlife, landscape and the undersea submersible used by scientists in the Imax film Galapagos. Classroom Investigations contains downloadable and online activities to use at home or in class. Resources for Teaching Evolution provides information and links on teaching evolution in the classroom.
Evolution web site
The project's goals are to heighten understanding of evolution and how it works, to dispel common misunderstandings, to illuminate why it is relevant to our lives and to improve its teaching. The Evolution web site provides a content-rich, interactive resource with streaming imagery, animations, simulations, dynamic timelines, conversations with experts and e links to evolution-related learning resources worldwide.
One-stop evolution information
Understanding Evolution is an education website, teaching the science and history of evolutionary biology. It aims to help teachers understand what evolution is, how it works, how it factors into our lives, how research in evolutionary biology is performed and how ideas in this area have changed over time.
Survival of the sneakiest
Survival of the Sneakiest is an amusing cartoon strip following the efforts of a male cricket as he tries to attract a mate. It debunks common myths about what it means to be evolutionarily "fit" and is just one resource available from the Understanding Evolution web site.