This website provides access to "an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan." (Overview at http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/about/overview.html)
This lesson plan is designed to help students use what they know about speciation, extinction, and biodiversity to invesitgate how human activity affects biodiversity and possible solutions for sustaining biodiversity. Before starting the lesson, students read the interview "Speciation and Biodiversity (Feb. 2002) with E.O Wilson. http://www.actionbioscience.org/biodiversity/wilson.html. The...
The link to the Biology 402 recitation on biological race contains many resources. There are numerous articles provided on biological non-existence, genetic diversity, human pigmentation and skin coloration, and race in medical diagnoses. Handouts are provided for in-class assignments on the evolution of skin color and biological race. Also provided is a handout/article on discovering how you...
This unit provides three games for students to learn genetic variations and the selective pressure in three different populations (fish, bacteria, flowers). Students will need to select an individual and decide whether the individual has high or low fitness under certain environment. Then students will need to decide whether the change (like mutations of mating) can improve the fitness of that...
This unit aims to help students understand how How natural selection can lead microevolution and results in populations that are better adapted to their environment. Students will first play like a bird that eat moths. Two phenotypes of moths are presented, and it is likely that students will eat mostly visible moths and therefore create a selective pressure. Then, students are guided to...
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