Analyze data on levels of variation within a population to make predictions about survival under particular environmental conditions SPI 0807.5.3

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1. Animal Adaptations: Focus on Bird Beaks - an Educator's Reference Desk lesson plan [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
2. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning - maintaining natural life support processes [14 page newsletter from the Ecological Society of America] [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
3. Darwin and Natural Selection - detailed explanation with several videos embedded
4. Exploring Evolution - In this interactive web lab you will explore the many lines of evidence scientists use to reconstruct the evolutionary histories of organisms. Along the way you will solve a mystery, compare bones and DNA, and look for fossils.
5. How Natural Selection Works - from How Stuff Works
6. Instincts Help Animals Survive Long, Cold Winters - discussion of factors which help determine who survives or not
7. Natural Selection - the driving force behind the evolutionary process
8. Natural Selection - how evolution works
9. Natural Selection - an interactive simulation

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