Overall
Netflix (requires subscription) series: Life on Our Planet https://www.netflix.com/au/title/80213846?fbclid=IwAR13J7yNdeymFbW57x_rprQxXG9gfMUXXZBrROuYoYaQYNLrrLHig9W07vY
Khan Academy (videos, text, tests)
Online units:
Evolution (Australian) https://www.coolaustralia.org/unit/evolution-year-10/
Evolution https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/educators/lessons/index.html
Record in the Rocks
Overall:
Aust Gov Geoscience Australia http://www.ga.gov.au/ multiple, including posters, teacher programs and student units: Fossils, History of the Earth
Fossils: Teacher notes, fact sheets, student activities download booklet https://d28rz98at9flks.cloudfront.net/37468/Rec2001_032.pdf
Articles:
Booklets:
Aust Gov Fossils booklet https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/37468
Depth Study Ideas:
Very comprehensive study https://www.ngsslifescience.com/science.php?/biology/lessonplans/C409/ 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.
Interactives/simulations:
https://ictportfoliork.weebly.com/sepup---natural-selection.html design birds, choose environment, predict then track their evolution over time.
Songs:
Fossils song to Party Rock Anthem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClJ5lwl_wM0&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR2CAGOuqkueVlys2ohzp_VVa3tCdQITyqkggKBGzicwO8hfAfT1u-HgUak [3.15]
Videos:
Making Fossils https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3tavmKaSBI [2.58]
Making Moulds and Casts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9XumXdY_c4 [8.40 mins]
Geological Timescale
Multiple:
Aust Gov Geoscience Australia http://www.ga.gov.au/ multiple, including posters, teacher programs and student units: Fossils, History of the Earth
Activities:
Time scale walk instructions: https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/70129 and https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/69795
Class activity: Great Fossil Find https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/teach/ensi/ensi_great_fossil_find.html?fbclid=IwAR0kab9tgE_isEaJP7dFiYQcd3aKWjyBLrsm8dVjG6J30GpSXJ_3yZh1guY
Instructions to make classroom GTS display: https://d28rz98at9flks.cloudfront.net/89966/Geological_Timescale_instructions_v3.pdf
Dinosaur Cutouts: https://www.ga.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/86555/Nautiloid-cut-out.pdf ; https://www.ga.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/86557/Serendipaceratops-cut-out.pdf ; https://www.ga.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/86559/Trilobite-cut-out.pdf; https://www.ga.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/86558/Triceratops-cut-out.pdf ; https://www.ga.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/86556/Pterosaur-cut-out.pdf ;
Articles:
Reconstruct face of woman who lived 5,700years ago from her DNA in chewing gum
Tuatara like no other animal on the planet https://www.sciencealert.com/the-tuatara-s-full-genome-is-neither-lizard-nor-mammal-it-s-a-strange-in-between
Posters:
History of the Earth https://www.ga.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/86634/History-of-the-Earth-poster.pdf
Australia Through Time https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/71079
Videos:
Australian "gold rush" of dinosaur discoveries https://www.instagram.com/p/CRDhaHQlrnQ/? (There is a modern-day gold rush of dinosaur exploration going on in outback Australia, highlighted by the recent unveiling of one of the world’s largest species of sauropod, Australotitan Cooperensis, which was the length of a basketball court.)
Mass extinction event https://www.facebook.com/ScienceNaturePage/videos/mass-extinction-event-2-billion-years-ago-killed-99-of-life-on-earth/3151418624918475/
Nat Geo Fossils of Dinosaurs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFREW_Piuq8 [56 mins]
12 Days of Evolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_jyHp3bmEw [18.03 mins]
Jurassic Fight Club https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4BRPBgXYO8 [3.32 mins]
T-Rex from Jurassic Park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soDUaoPKcjY [8.10mins]
A Brief History of Geological Time (series) https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/history-geologic-eons/history-geologic-eons/
Webquests:
Dinosaurs https://www.teach-nology.com/search/search.cgi?zoom_query=dinosaur
Adaptations of dinosaurs Make your own Sauropod Poop https://www.sciencefriday.com/educational-resources/dinosaur-poop/
Human Evolution
Articles:
Every person alive descended from... https://www.businessinsider.com.au/origin-of-modern-humans-botswana-africa-2019-10?utm_content=bufferf67bd&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwAR1MPuEEmy8cWtIkI2on_LX8PI_tYPqzgsvpTupqn7WkWKusTjpoYK0p2Uo&r=US&IR=T
Birthplace of humans https://bigthink.com/life/study-finds-homeland-of-all-modern-humans/?fbclid=IwAR1nKH1NflKDElpuhSvKFd3duPMoYXH0eqaZRL0zjm8JjMReherwVsjUQbw
Videos:
Where did humans come from? [6.33 mins]
7 million years of human evolution in 6 minutes http://www.openculture.com/2019/10/7-million-years-of-human-evolution-visualized-in-six-minutes.html?fbclid=IwAR2BpHe6I5Mf4bzIWREptgEN4SX7mdiUy6bwnm1oq6dBbIEPrSIqetnaQX4 [6.23 mins]
There was no first human https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdWLhXi24Mo [4.06 mins]
Interactives:
Natural Selection
Activities:
Debate: Darwin/Lamarck Court Case - at AccessExcellence http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/ATG/data/released/0078-DonMils/
Interactives:
Quizzes:
Evolution and Natural Selection https://lovebiology.co.uk/quizzes.php
Videos:
***Great example of camouflage from Sherlock Holmes movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlOwLUwAbbQ [1.52 mins]
'The invisible barrier keeping worlds apart' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTK_bC00ilg In between two of the islands of Indonesia, there’s an ancient line that is both real and…not real.
Webquests:
Darwin, through letters https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/learning/7-11/darwin-and-evolution
Peppered Moths interactive simulation (requires Flash) http://peppermoths.weebly.com/
Articles:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-10/sexed-semen-technology-for-livestock/101411580?fbclid=IwAR3kN1nPs_gnWUXB-rahlLLcPN0LrpUcf5ouAjmUyNyis6m9CARTVMPzWmE
Evolution Discussions
Articles:
Evolution and religion reconciled https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/religion/revolution/1875.html