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Darwin's Theory of Evolution - What's the big deal?
Evolution of Whales from land mammals to ocean mammals.

This webpage has been designed to help you complete our unit on evolution. Use the following links to answer the questions posted in the power point presentation from school. If you need a reminder, I have posted the power point presentation below, look for it under attachments. Also under the attachments is the video we watched in class. If you were absent, or missed something during the presentation, please be sure to watch it.

Questions you will answer while working on this unit. Use the pages to the left to navigate through each of the questions/lessons.

1. What is science? Take the survey found on the power point presentation. Compare with your partners and your family.

2. What does evolution mean? View the video and answer the questions found on the powerpoint presentation.

3. Was Darwin the first person to consider evolution? Who preceeded him?

4. What is the proof for evolution? Use the attached rubric "Evolution" to help you prepare your answer.

5. How much of this is "real" science?

Additional resources

History of the Earth Poster

What is evolution and how does it work? http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/search/topicbrowse2.php?topic_id=41

Another fabulous site on evolution from PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/educators/lessons/index.html

The Tree of Life: http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html

What is evolution and how does it work? http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/search/topicbrowse2.php?topic_id=41

Fish Olympic Games: http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/fish/index.html

Classifying Organisms: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/orchid/classifying.html

Palentology Website: http:/www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/

Author: Erin Novotny
Last modified: 2/8/2012 4:17 AM (EST)