Classroom Resources

This video case study explores whether elephants can detect, interpret, and respond to signals delivered by underground vibrations.

In this activity, students will be guided through making observations using trail camera data collected in Gorongosa National Park, developing and investigating a scientifically testable research question, and analyzing their results.

This interactive module explores niche partitioning, a mechanism that enables similar species of animals to coexist.

This activity guides the analysis of a published scientific figure from a study that tested how effectively mimicry protects arthropods against different types of predators.

This activity guides the analysis of a published scientific figure from a study that tested how bats use echolocation to adjust their hunting behavior.

This activity guides the analysis of a published scientific figure from a study that tested how individual fish responded to an artificial model of a fish school.

This interactive, modular lab explores the evolution of the anole lizards in the Caribbean through data collection and analysis.

This activity explores the concepts and research on the anole lizards discussed in the short film The Origin of Species: Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree, including adaptation by natural selection, convergent evolution, and the formation of new species.

This activity explores the concepts and research presented in the short film The Origin of Species: The Beak of the Finch, which documents the main findings from four decades of investigations on the evolution of the Galápagos finches.