logo

Natural Selection Lesson Plans


Online Biology Formative Assessments
Biology Lesson Plans  |  Formative Assessments  |  Classroom Management Strategies  |  Links  |  Login


Natural Selection and Evidence of Evolution

Download Lesson Plan

High School Worksheet:
Students match natural selection and evidence of evolution vocabulary terms with their definitions. More...

Published by Lesson Plans Inc.
High School

Dinosaur Evolution Project

Download Lesson Plan

High School Project:
Students pretend to evolve a dinosaur using Darwin's principles of evolution and watch how the dinosaur adapts to an environmental change. This is a very comprehensive project including natural selection, adaptations, chromosome and point mutations, gene pools, isolation, Mendel genetics, protein synthesis, fossils, ecology, competition,and speciation. More...

Published by Lesson Plans Inc.
High School

Evolutionary Adaptation vs. Acclimation

Download Lesson Plan

High School Worksheet:
Students answer if a scenario is an acclimation or an adaptation. More...

Published by Lesson Plans Inc.
High School

Natural Selection Game

Download Multimedia

High School Multimedia:
Students use the animation to learn how natural selection influenced populations of peppered moths. Great game where students get to pretend they are a bird and eat camouflaged peppered moths. You will need to have Adobe Shockwave installed to use this animation. More...

Published by Techapps
High School

Survival of the Sneakiest - Comic Strip

Download Lesson Plan

High School Worksheet:
This comic follows the efforts of a male cricket as he tries to attract a mate, and in the process, debunks common myths about what it means to be evolutionarily "fit." More...

Published by Josh Frankel
High School

Adaptations of Darwin’s Finches Lab

Download Lesson Plan

High School Experiment:
Students participate in an activity that demonstrates how natural selection works by mimicking adaptations of Darwin’s finches. Topics include extinction, competition, generations, survival of the fittest and graphing. More...

Published by Lesson Plans Inc.
High School

Theory of Evolution Quiz

Download Lesson Plan

High School Tests:
This quiz assesses students knowledge of natural selection, selection based on phenotypes, evidence, fossils, and genetic variation. More...

Published by Lesson Plans Inc.
High School

Natural Selection in Populations

Download Multimedia

High School Multimedia:
Students change the beak size and precipitation parameters and watch how populations of finches survive and thrive or die off based upon their adaptations. Good animation for students to see how natural selection works with populations. More...

Published by EDC
High School

Peppered Moth Simulation

Download Lesson Plan

High School Activity:
Students will simulate how predators locate prey in different environments using forceps, newspaper and colored papers. Students will analyze how color affects an organism's ability to survive in certain environments. More...

Published by Shannan Muskopf
High School

Natural Selection Simulation

Download Lesson Plan

High School Activity:
Students model natural selection by using tools such as spoons to "capture" beans and determine the best adaptations for survival. More...

Published by Shannan Muskopf
High School

Evolution by Natural Selection

Download Student Handout
Download Teacher Notes

High School Activity:
Principles of natural selection are demonstrated by a simulation involving different color pompoms on different color and texture habitats and student feeders equipped with different types of feeding implement. Students learn how different adaptations contribute to differences in survival and reproductive success, which results in changing frequencies of genotypes in the populations. More...

Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty
High School

Evolution Study Guide

Download Lesson Plan

High School Worksheet:
Students will be able to explain the modern theory of evolution, including: natural selection, the evolution of populations, fossils, Darwin's finches, gene pools, evidence and more important concepts. Hand out this worksheet before introducing evolution. Students are to fill in this worksheet while you teach. Students then use this worksheet as a central place to study from to prepare for a test or quiz. More...

Published by Lesson Plans Inc.
High School

<< Back


Copyright © 2011 by Lesson Plans Inc™. All rights reserved under US and international law.
These lessons may be freely copied and used in a classroom but they remain the copyrighted property of the author.
bottom