Evolution by Natural Selection Worksheets

Evolution by natural selection worksheets and natural selection lesson plans that are designed for high school, middle school, and elementary school life science teachers are downloadable here for free. Adapation worksheets where students learn the vocabulary for the process of natural selection and adapation. Free Lesson Plan (PDF) link below or become a member to get access to the answer key and editable file. Free natural selection curriculum includes:

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Natural Selection Concepts

• Adaptation - Favorable variations and traits for survival.
• Survival of the fittest
• Directional Selection - one extreme phenotype thrives.
• Stabilizing Selection - intermediate phenotypes thrive, both extreme phenotypes die off.
• Disruptive Selection - both extreme phenotypes thrive, intermediate phenotypes die off.
• Principle of Variation - physiology, morphology, behavior.
• Principle of Selection - certain traits are more successful for survival.
• Thomas Malthus - human population growth.
• Jean Baptiste Lamarck - use and disuse of physical attributes.
• Charles Lyell - Earth’s surface changes.
• Darwin’s Voyage - HMS Beagle, Galapagos Islands, finches, turtles, iguanas.
• Alfred Wallace - asked darwin to help publish essay, Darwin’s book "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection".

Lessons Organized by NGSS Standard

• LS1 From Molecules to Organisms
• LS2 Ecosystems
• LS3 Heredity
• LS4 Biological Evolution

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