Teaching Evolution and the Nature of Science. This online book, published by the National Academy of Sciences, is an excellent resource for teachers. It explains the important concepts in evolution and provides classroom activities.
Understanding Evolution. University of California, Berkeley. This excellent website is divided into sections: What is evolution and how it works? How does evolution impact my daily life? What is the evidence for evolution? What is the history of evolutionary theory? and What is the theory of evolution? A teacher section offers advice and material for teaching evolution, the nature of science, relevance of evolution, history of evolutionary thought, evidence, misconceptions and potential pitfalls. A multi-part, on-line Evolution 101 with more detailed explanations of evolution is also offered.
Evolution Resources. National Science Teachers Association. Provides teachers with online resources for teaching evolution, links to evolution headlines and news, summaries and ordering information for three NSTA books concerning evolution.
The section, National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), provides answers and talking points to some of the common questions raised by parents and students about evolution, and proponents of teaching creationism or intelligent design in the science classroom. The site also provides links to evolution headlines and past NSTA articles concerning evolution and the teaching of evolution in the classroom.
Evolution, PBS. Discussion of Darwin, Change, Extinction, Survival, Sex, Humans, and Religion as presented in the PBS television series. The section on "Change" has a very useful timeline. On the timeline, you can choose points in geologic time and find out information about important changes in geology, life, and extinctions from the time you chose.
Hall of Human Ancestors. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History. Contains brief easy-to-understand summaries of primate origins, primate anatomy (concentrating on primate skulls), and an interactive human family tree (phylogeny). By clicking on a species from the family tree you can pull up a summary page with images of representative fossils from that species. There is also a Quicktime movie of the fossil skulls in the Smithsonian collection
University of California-Berkeley’s Learning from the Fossil Record is a popular earth history site that includes three sections applicable to evolution: Learning from the fossil record, National science standard matrix, and the Geologic time scale. Each of these sections provides information and links to evolution sites and K-12 classroom activities.
WWW Virtual Library-Evolution (Biosciences). Provides links to evolution materials in the categories of evolution, biology, software, molecular evolution, phylogenetics, systematics, and taxonomy, paleontology and natural history.
Tree of Life Project. The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world , which provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history ( phylogeny ), and characteristics. Provides cladograms at different levels of phylogeny with descriptions and references for each.
Mechanisms of Evolution. University of California, Berkeley. Short discussions with pictures and diagrams of descent, mechanisms of change, genetic variation, genetic drift, natural selection, and coevolution. Topics are arranged as a slide show.
