The Web Bibliography of Evolutionary Science
By Christina Lewchanin
This Web Bibliography presents websites that are rich in information regarding evolutionary science. They offer various perspectives and levels of understanding on the topic. The grade level ranges of users for these sites are form elementary through graduate student.
A number educators and professors constructed this website with science backgrounds ranging from paleontology, integrative biology, and evolutionary genetics to veteran high school science teachers with MS degrees in biology. A number of graduate students contributed to this endeavor. It is collaboration between University of California Museum of
Paleontology and the Education. This site offers an “evolution 101,” a crash course in evolutionary theory. Evolutionary bits that are included in recent national news like bed bugs, which have “…evolved a resistance to…commonly used chemicals.” There is even a teachers section for K-12 teachers, which includes lesson plans and conceptual framework. This is a great resource for middle school through graduate students.
of Paleontology
This site was created by NOVA, presented, and supported by PBS. This site presents a threepart computer animated/ lives action video series on the theory of evolution, which was created by a number of contributors with various science backgrounds. This gives a visual perspective of evolution from the earliest findings. The site also includes a separate evolution section, which offers audio stories, slide show, articles, interactives, and access to books,
DVD’s, as well as outside links. This site is most useful for middle school through graduate students.

This site is one that allows the user full interactive access to 150 years of Darwin. The contributors have science backgrounds including astrology, biology, polar science, anthropology and geosciences. It also includes an introductory video of Darwin and his contributions, an interactive timeline and the option to examine aspects of evolution from the perspectives of six scientific areas from astrology to polar science. Students from elementary
(5th grade) could use this website, as can secondary education students.
This website gives children and teens access to PDF files that break down evolution in terms they can easily understand. It includes illustrations and writings that give vivid explanations to the theory of evolution. Some of the PDF’s also include fossil records among other items. Some of the same contributors of the earlier Berkley site I reviewed support this site. This site does have some minor flaws, i.e., some of the portals no longer work, however the PDF’s make this site valuable to teachers looking for evolutionary material including books to share with elementary students. There is a link to Charlie’s Playhouse, which offers everything from flash cards to large step board games on the subject.

The Smithsonian Institutes National Museum of Natural History presents this website.
Its contributors are Scientists with backgrounds in the various science disciplines. This site includes various interactive opportunities for all range of students. They are given the opportunity to answer the question, “What does it mean to be human?” and those answers will be shared with the world! This is a well thought out site just as one would expect from the Smithsonian, with an incredible amount of information to share.
Students of all ages will find something on this site.
This site is simply the complete Darwin book, The Origins of Species by Means of
Natural Selection, from the preface to the glossary by Charles himself. This website would work best for high school through post-graduate students. It is not as difficult a read as one might think. It includes links to other sites that include topics such as timelines, Darwin facts and if some chooses, they can search out links that offer the creationism theory.

This website covers the evolution of species as studied by a number of scientists in the field of evolutionary science from the slightest of bacteria to largest living creatures on earth. It gives the name of each living thing from kingdom to species and everything in between. This site is an evolving one and will continue to grow with every species that is discovered and classified. I first heard about this site on the science channel but this is the first time I have actually had the opportunity to examine it myself and it is simply incredible!
This website was created by scientists that study a variety of aspects of evolution including the polyogentic tree, which is a diagram that displays the relationship among organisms. It also includes countless others aspects of evolution including evolutionary facts and theories as well as geologic time. This site would prove most useful to college students and perhaps advanced placement students in high school.

I did not think it would be fair to only include websites that were created by scientists with degrees in science. I wanted to include a site that was created by an evolution enthusiast that has created a site using credible resources from the study of evolutionary science. This particular site was created by a man who has spent a great deal of time studying Darwin as a novas and wanted to share the information he has gathered in a responsible and thoughtful manor. I believe he has succeeded.
This is one of my favorite websites that deals with father of evolutionary science,
Charles Darwin. Scientists with vast backgrounds in science history created this site.
One cannot study evolution without dedicating a great deal of time to Darwin. This site is useful for students from middle school through graduate school. Everything anyone could possibly want to know about the man is in this site, from his beginning to his end and beyond. This is a valuable website without a doubt.