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Evolution Lesson Plans
- Amphibian & Reptile Crafts- "Templates and directions for making a paper mache alligator, a crocodile, a dinosaur, frogs, and a frog puppet."
- Animal Adaptations- This activity enables students to get a better understanding of adaptations and their relationship to the environment by constructing an animal of their own!
- Cave Club Introduction - Student will learn about prehistoric time through hands-on learning activities and other creative art projects.
- Darwin/Lamarck Court Case- This is a fun activity where students learn about evolution by staging a trial. Discussions and notes are then taken after the trial using the court reporters' notes. This is one the kids will remember all year.
- Dinosaur Tracks and Critical Thinking- They will learn the rudiments of how tracks are made and how to read them. They will use powers of observation and critical thinking to produce a scenario.
- Evolution! - Students should be able to hold their own with knowledge about evolution.
- Evolutionary Theory - Students will articulate the scientific evidence for evolution.
- Introducing Evolution- Two advance organizers for introducing the topic of evolution. Both organizers address students' prior knowledge about the subject.
- Jurassic Park Projects- These project ideas integrate science with language arts, mathematics and art. They can be used as alternative assessments for students who have read Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton.
- Modeling the Mitochondrial DNA "Clock"- This activity is designed to help students understand the concept of a molecular clock and how the accumulation of mutations reflect the length of time two populations (or two species) have been geographically or reproductively separated from one another.
- Natural Selection- Introduction to natural selection and the Chi square method of statistical analysis.
- Religion In Schools - Students will be able to express the issues with religion in schools.
- Species and Systems- Activity in which students apply systems criteria to any species they choose.
- The Natural Selection of Forks and Beans- In this activity, students actively participate as one of three predator species as they attempt to capture as many individuals as possible of four prey species.
- Two Kinds of Dinosaurs- Students will compare two kinds of dinosaurs based upon the structure of the pelvis: bird-hipped and reptile-hipped.
