Site Guide: Evolution

General Collections of Information, Activities, Labs, and Resources

Teaching Evolution and the Affective Domain - This page provides useful information for teaching controversial topics, with a focus on evolution. It includes practical advice as well as links to resources with further information outside of SERC.

Early Earth Resources for Teaching - This site hosts a collection of links to SERC materials that involve teaching about the early Earth and evolution. It also contains links to information about how to address creationism in the classroom.


Addressing Creationism - This Earth history module is intended to assist science faculty who are teaching Earth history, evolution, or plate tectonics by providing them with access to solid information about creationism and about teaching science to students who may have creationist beliefs.

Teaching Activities and Labs

Inquiry-based Integrated Instructional Units - This site hosts examples of inquiry-based activities related to the field of genomics. A list of activities from this project include Reconstructing the Evolution of Cauliflower and Broccoli and Modeling Molecular Evolution.

Science and Religion: Teaching Evolutionary Theory - This role playing activity is from the Structured Academic Controversy module which helps students understand and explore complex issues and work toward developing consensus. There is also a video of this activity from the 2007 Affective Domain workshop.

Paleontology Evolution Activity Search - This page lists approximately 20 activities with short summaries from SERC's Cutting Edge paleontology module that have a focus on evolution; this list may be narrowed by selecting a particular topic or activity type. Users may also view courses from the paleontology collections and other internet resources that focus on evolution.

MERLOT - Biology Activity Collection - This site is an entryway to a small collection of teaching materials and contains several examples of activities that involve teaching evolution in a biology course.

Tools

Bioinformatics Online Resources - This page, from the Microbial Life Educational Resources project, features a collection of links to online resources involving sequencing genes and bioinformatics. This project also contains two bioinformatics modules that provide educators with instructions and tools for carrying out a gene sequencing and interpretation project in the lab or classroom.