Darwin's Predictions (Interactive)
Learn how scientists in a range of disciplines (paleontology, geology, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and evolutionary developmental biology) support Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/darwin/predictions.html

Evolution Since Darwin (Photos and Essays)
Meet other scientists who have contributed to the field.

• What Darwin Didn't Know: Gregor Mendel and the Mechanism of Heredity
• Theodosius Dobzhansky: Integrating Genetics and Evolution
• Ernst Mayr and the Evolutionary Synthesis
• George Gaylord Simpson: Natural Selection and the Fossil Record
• John Maynard Smith: The Evolutionary Stable Strategy
• The Discovery of DNA's Structure [Rosalind Franklin]

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/06/index.html

Pardis Sabeti (Video, Interview, Q & A)
By night she's a rocker. By day, she's a Harvard geneticist tracking the evolution of the human genome. (8:00 mins.)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/0302/04.html

Examine the Nature of Evidence (Viewing Ideas: After Watching Chapter 3)
Become a scientist and determine if two items are related by considering the evidence.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/viewing/0303_02_nsn.html

Curriculum Connections
Nature of science, use of evidence to support or counter a claim or hypothesis, scientific process

Standards
Science as Inquiry: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry, Understanding about scientific inquiry; History and Nature of Science: Science as human endeavor, Nature of scientific knowledge

Dinosaurs of the Gobi (Lesson)
Practice the skills scientists use in cladistics (the study of the differences and similarities of different organisms over time) while discussing fossil evidence.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/activities/2102_gobi.html

Curriculum Connections
Scientific process, fossils, evolution, cladistics, natural selection, reproduction

Standards
Science as Inquiry: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry, Understanding about scientific inquiry; Life Science: Reproduction and heredity, Regulation and behavior, Diversity and adaptations of organisms, Biological evolution; History and Nature of Science: Science as human endeavor, Nature of scientific knowledge