Making Sense of Evolution

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 16.06.03

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Background
  3. Rationale
  4. Objective
  5. Concepts
  6. Teaching Strategies
  7. Classroom Activities
  8. Bibliography
  9. Resources for Teachers
  10. Endnotes
  11. Appendix

Gotta Evolve ‘Em All! Evolutionary Ideas for 1st Graders

David Ostheimer

Published September 2016

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Endnotes

  1. Jerry Coyne, Why Evolution is True (New York, NY: Penguin Group 2009) 3.
  2. http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Natural_selection (accessed 17 July 2016).
  3. “Natural Selection” http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_25 (accessed 17 July 2016).
  4. “What About Fitness?” http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evo_27 (accessed 17 July 2016).
  5. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/mutation?s=t (accessed 17 July 2016).
  6. Jerry Coyne, Why Evolution is True (New York, NY: Penguin Group 2009) 12
  7. “Adaptation” http://nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/adaptation/ (accessed 17 July 2016).
  8. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/vestigial (accessed 17 July 2016).
  9. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/scientific-theory (accessed 17 July 2016).
  10. David Young, The Discovery of Evolution (London: Natural History Museum Publications, 1992) 10.
  11. Roy Shepherd, “What is a Fossil?” http://www.discoveringfossils.co.uk/whatisafossil.htm (accessed 17 July 2016).
  12. Neal Shubin, Your Inner Fish (New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2008) 3.
  13. “The Formation of Fossils” http://scienceviews.com/dinosaurs/fossilformation.html (accessed 17 July 2016).
  14. Spencer Lucas, Dinosaurs: The Textbook 5th ed. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2007) 31.
  15. ibid 30.
  16. Transitional Forms” http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/lines_03 (accessed 17 July 2016).
  17. “The Evolution of Whales” http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/evograms_03(accessed 21 Juky 2016).
  18. Archaeopteryx :An Early Bird." http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/birds/archaeopteryx.html (accessed 17 July 2016).
  19. Spencer Lucas, Dinosaurs: The Textbook 5th ed. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill 2007) 226.
  20. Theropod Dinosaurs." http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/saurischia/theropoda.html (accessed 17 July 2016).
  21. Spencer Lucas, Dinosaurs: The Textbook 5th ed. (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill 2007) 226.
  22. "Pokémon Evolution Guide." http://Pokémondb.net/evolution (accessed 17 July 2016).
  23. Richard Lenski, How Evolution Shapes Our Lives Chapter 1(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016) 2.

Comments:

Golde Tischler

December 12, 2021 at 6:13 pm

Love this unit

Hello! I love this unit so much! I was planning on making lesson plans based on this unit. Do you have lesson plans you'd be able to share with me? As a first year teacher, it's really helpful to see other teacher's lesson plans who have more experience. Thank you!

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