Connected Biology

Evolution is often challenging for high school students to understand because it encompasses an array of interlinked processes that occur across a broad swath biological scales. To help address this, we have developed set freely accessible, online, and interactive lessons focus on the evolution sweet garden peas from their starchy tasting ancestors. Gregor Mendel first explored genetics in mid-1800s; our materials explore basis R r alleles genetic, protein, cell function, artificial selection, population perspectives. These Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)–linked integrate concepts scales are designed be used flexible order, with support provided teachers how choose sequence meets students’ needs. Throughout, act as scientists they uncover multiple at disparate all worked together wrinkled ancestors were round.