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Life Science: Evolution

Resource Grade Level Media Type
Are We Alone?  

Are We Alone?
This video segment adapted from NOVA features a variety of scientific perspectives on the age old question, "Are we alone in the universe?" Animations make vivid the improbability that we could intercept a radio wave signaling extra terrestrial intelligence.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Becoming a Fossil  

Becoming a Fossil
This video segment describes how the Australopithecus afarensis skeleton known as Lucy could have been fossilized. Footage courtesy of NOVA: "In Search of Human Origins."

6-12 QuickTime Video
Beneath the Waters of Cocos Island  

Beneath the Waters of Cocos Island
The nutrient-rich waters surrounding Cocos Island set the stage for astounding predator-prey interactions, as seen in this video segment from NOVA: "Island of Sharks."

6-8 QuickTime Video
Body Breakdowns  

Body Breakdowns
This interactive feature from the NOVA "Surviving Denali" Web site details the variety of ways the body can fail while climbing a high-altitude peak.

6-8 HTML Interactive
Bt Corn  

Bt Corn
This video segment from FRONTLINE/NOVA: "Harvest of Fear" looks at corn that has been genetically modified to resist one insect pest, and the multiple concerns it raises.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Build a Family Tree  

Build a Family Tree
Both sexes can use this interactive feature that lets you use DNA information from the Y chromosome to complete a male family tree. From the NOVA: "Lost Tribes of Israel" Web site.

9-12 Shockwave Interactive
Caves: Extreme Conditions for Life  

Caves: Extreme Conditions for Life
This video segment adapted from NOVA raises the provocative idea that if life can exist in the most extreme environments on Earth — such as in dark, toxic caves — then perhaps living things can also survive in harsh environments on other planets.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Classical vs. Transgenic Breeding  

Classical vs. Transgenic Breeding
This video segment from FRONTLINE/NOVA: "Harvest of Fear" explains that genetic engineering and classical breeding both alter the genetic makeup of crop plants.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Crocodiles! Clickable Croc  

Crocodiles! Clickable Croc
This interactive feature from the NOVA "Crocodiles!" Web site details some of the characteristics that have enabled crocodiles to thrive for 200 million years.

6-8 HTML Interactive
Dances with Bees  

Dances with Bees
This interactive feature from the NOVA "Tales from the Hive" Web site explores the methods honeybees use to communicate to their hivemates the location, quantity, and quality of nearby food sources.

6-8 HTML Interactive
Deep-Sea Bestiary  

Deep-Sea Bestiary
This document from the NOVA: "Into the Abyss" Web site describes the physical and behavioral traits of some of the least-known and most unlikely creatures on earth.

6-8 HTML Document
Desert Biome  

Desert Biome
This video segment from NOVA: "A Desert Place" describes the physical characteristics and organisms that define the desert biome.

3-12 QuickTime Video
Embryo to Duckling  

Embryo to Duckling
This video segment from NOVA: "The Shape of Things" follows the growth of a duck embryo, from a single fertilized egg cell to a complex, hatching duckling.

K-5 QuickTime Video
Evidence for the Big Bang Theory  

Evidence for the Big Bang Theory
This video segment adapted from NOVA tells the story of two scientists who inadvertently discovered microwave radiation that is now believed to be heat left over from the Big Bang.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Exploring the Arctic Seafloor  

Exploring the Arctic Seafloor
In this interactive activity adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, learn what some of the first imagery ever shot on the Arctic Ocean seabed tells us about life in extreme environments.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Fighting Back  

Fighting Back
Help the immune system fight off an infection in this interactive feature from the NOVA: "Surviving AIDS" Web site.

6-8 Shockwave Interactive
Finding Disease Genes  

Finding Disease Genes
This video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" explains the process of finding genes that cause disease.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Finding Lucy  

Finding Lucy
This Evolution video segment depicts the landmark hominid fossil finds by Don Johanson and his team in Ethiopia.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Frozen Frogs  

Frozen Frogs
This video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW shows how the common wood frog freezes solid every winter, an adaptation that allows the organism to survive the cold winter.

6-12 QuickTime Video
The Function of Sleep  

The Function of Sleep
In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, discover what researchers are learning about sleep by examining the dreams of rats.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Geneticist Pardis Sabeti  

Geneticist Pardis Sabeti
In this video profile adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, learn about geneticist and rock musician Pardis Sabeti, whose innovative insights into natural selection demonstrated how beneficial mutations spread quickly through a population.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Genetic Variation  

Genetic Variation
This video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" explores the genetic similarities and differences among organisms.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Global Warming: Beyond Fossil Fuels  

Global Warming: Beyond Fossil Fuels
Martin Hoffert, professor of physics at New York University, discusses global warming and alternative energies in this interview from the NOVA/FRONTLINE Web site.

6-12 HTML Document
The Grand Canyon: Evidence of Earth's Past  

The Grand Canyon: Evidence of Earth's Past
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, a fossil found among the Grand Canyon's rock layers reveals the existence of a shallow sea that once covered most of western North America.

6-12 QuickTime Video
<i>Homo Sapiens</i> Versus Neanderthals  

Homo Sapiens Versus Neanderthals
This video segment, adapted from NOVA, explores reasons why Homo sapiens had an advantage over Neanderthals in the pursuit of territory and natural resources.

6-12 QuickTime Video
How Did Life Emerge Here?  

How Did Life Emerge Here?
This video segment adapted from NOVA describes the emergence of life on the islands of Hawaiʻi from a barren volcanic platform under the ocean waves to the rich explosion of life that covers the many climate zones of the islands today.

3-12 QuickTime Video
Human Chromosome 2  

Human Chromosome 2
In this video segment adapted from NOVA: "Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial," learn how modern genetics and molecular biology offer compelling support for evolution. The video features an interview with biologist Ken Miller.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Journey into DNA  

Journey into DNA
Travel deep into the human body to see exactly where your DNA resides. From the NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" Web site.

6-12 Flash Interactive
Jupiter: Earth's Shield  

Jupiter: Earth's Shield
Jupiter's immense gravity protects Earth from asteroids. In this video segment adapted from NOVA, scientists searching for signs of life in the universe identify solar systems with Jupiter-like planets that may be shielding smaller nearby Earth-like planets from comets and asteroids.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Laetoli Footprints  

Laetoli Footprints
This Evolution video segment describes how the famous track fossils known as the Laetoli footprints might have been formed and what they can reveal about the creatures who left them.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Life Before Oxygen  

Life Before Oxygen
This Interactive NOVA: "Earth" video segment looks at ancient organisms that lived anaerobically, the origins of photosynthesis, and the new forms of life this process made possible.

3-12 QuickTime Video
Mammals Get Their Chance  

Mammals Get Their Chance
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, animations of an asteroid hitting Earth are used to illustrate this widely accepted theory of dinosaur extinction and the resulting conditions that favored mammals.

K-5 QuickTime Video
Marathon Migrators  

Marathon Migrators
This video segment from NOVA: "The Mystery of Animal Pathfinders" explores how the migratory patterns of shorebirds have evolved to coincide with the spawning of horseshoe crabs.

6-8 QuickTime Video
Mass Extinction  

Mass Extinction
In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, learn about a chain of events, including ancient volcanoes, global warming, and deadly gases, which may have caused Earth's greatest mass extinction 250 million years ago.

6-12 QuickTime Video
More Than an Image  

More Than an Image
This video segment explores how humans perceive the world through vision. Footage from NOVA: "Mystery of the Senses: Vision."

3-8 QuickTime Video
Night Vision  

Night Vision
This interactive feature from the NOVA "Leopards of the Night" Web site highlights the nighttime habits and abilities of a wide range of nocturnal creatures.

6-8 HTML Interactive
On Human Cloning  

On Human Cloning
Three cloning experts share their opinions in these interviews from the NOVA "18 Ways to Make a Baby." Web site.

9-12 HTML Document
The Reproductive Role of Flowers  

The Reproductive Role of Flowers
In this video segment adapted from NOVA, learn about the critical role of flowers in seed plant reproductive biology.

6-12 QuickTime Video
RNAi Discovered  

RNAi Discovered
In this video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, learn how RNAi, a mechanism that has evolved in cells to prevent viral infection, was discovered and how it works.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Robofly  

Robofly
Featuring slow-motion footage of insects in flight, this video adapted from NOVA explores the engineering challenge of designing a robotic aerial vehicle that flies like a bug.

6-12 QuickTime Video
Sea Turtles  

Sea Turtles
This video segment from Interactive NOVA: "Animal Pathfinders" describes the life history of the sea turtle.

6-8 QuickTime Video
Seeing Through Camouflage  

Seeing Through Camouflage
This interactive feature from the NOVA "Leopards" Web site presents a wide variety of ways in which animals use coloration to their advantage.

6-8 Shockwave Interactive
The Sense of Taste  

The Sense of Taste
This video segment explores the sense of taste in humans -- why we have it, and what happens when we lose it. Footage from NOVA: "Mystery of the Senses: Taste."

3-8 QuickTime Video
Shark Attack! The Hunt  

Shark Attack! The Hunt
This interactive feature from the NOVA "Shark Attack!" Web site details the six senses sharks use to find and capture their prey.

6-8 HTML Interactive
Should We Grow GM Crops?  

Should We Grow GM Crops?
Learn the pros and cons of genetically modified (GM) crops, and cast your vote on whether they should be grown. From the FRONTLINE/NOVA: "Harvest of Fear" Web site.

9-12 HTML Interactive
Super Salmon  

Super Salmon
This video segment from FRONTLINE/NOVA: "Harvest of Fear" explores genetic modification of salmon and possible consequences.

9-12 QuickTime Video
Surviving Winter  

Surviving Winter
In this media-rich activity designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the various physical and behavioral adaptations that animals rely on to help them survive changing environmental conditions, such as the arrival of winter.

6-12 Student Activity
Tiktaalik: Evolution of a "Fishapod"  

Tiktaalik: Evolution of a "Fishapod"
In this media-rich lesson, students learn about transitional fossils and explore the similarities and differences between the structures of different animals. They focus particularly on Tiktaalik, a transitional fossil between aquatic and terrestrial vertebrates.

9-12 Lesson Plan
Transitional Fossils  

Transitional Fossils
In this media-rich activity designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn that transitional fossils provide scientists with evidence to establish how different major animal groups are related to one another in evolution.

5-12 Student Activity
Who Owns the Genome?  

Who Owns the Genome?
This video segment from NOVA: "Cracking the Code of Life" examines the social and ethical implications of genome research.

9-12 QuickTime Video