Teacher understanding of effective evidence-based practices is vital for supporting student achievement and closing achievement gaps. While many alternative pathway teachers know what content they must teach, many have never had classes on how to teach the content using evidence-based practices. This infographic is a quick reference guide containing evidence-based practices that can impact learning that teachers can use daily to support effective instruction.

Use this checklist to evaluate your plans before you submit them as evidence.

This video segment adapted from NOVA tells the story of two scientists who inadvertently discovered microwave radiation that is now believed to be heat left over from the Big Bang.

DNA is the fundamental unit of heredity and is found in our cells. It contains the information that living things need to grow and maintain themselves.

Animation depicts the route Darwin traveled in 1831 for 5 years to various locations around the world, including South America, the Galapagos Islands, and other locations in the Pacific.

Speciation is the evolution of one or more new species from a single existing species. This diagram depicts the likely evolutionary relationship between different species of finches.

Vestigial structures are structures or remnants of structures that do not have a function. Whales and pythons have vestigial hind leg bones embedded in their bodies, illustrating that they evolved from four-legged ancestors.

Vestigial structures are structures or remnants of structures that do not have a function. The coccyx, also known as tailbone, is an example of a vestigial structure in humans.

This is part one "Evidence of a Chemical Reaction." I conducted 4 demonstrations showing one or more of the following characteristics: a color change, precipitate formation, gas production, and a temperature change (either exothermic or endothermic). Part 2 of this video completes the aluminum foil and copper chloride demonstration and reviews the important concepts that were shared.

Ancient fossils Darwin found in South America suggested that ancient animals might be related to present-day living organisms.

Animation depicts the route Darwin traveled as he returned home to England in 1836, five years after departing on his trip. The information he gathered on this trip led to the theory of natural selection.

Explore the evidence of evolution with this interactive worksheet based off of NOVA’s Evolution Lab. This resource is designed to be completed while playing through the Evolution Lab game and contains multiple choice and free response questions and covers Mission 1 of the Evolution Lab game with embedded videos. Mission 1 introduces students to natural selection and how to interpret and create phylogenetic trees.

Explore the evidence of evolution with this interactive worksheet based off of NOVA’s Evolution Lab. This resource is designed to be completed while playing through the Evolution Lab game and contains multiple choice and free response questions and covers Mission 6 of the Evolution Lab game with embedded videos. Mission 6 explores human evolution over the course of the past 6-7 million years using both fossil evidence and DNA analysis.

This video segment from Evolution: "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" illustrates the remarkable camouflage of a praying mantis against its leafy backdrop.

Discover the evolution of slavery in Colonial Virginia through the life of Anthony Johnson in this video from The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. An African American who lived in Jamestown, Virginia, Johnson owned a 250 acre tobacco farm until the booming tobacco industry in Virginia transformed slavery into a system based on race.

This lesson plan is part of Gilder Lehrman’s series of Common Core State Standards–based teaching resources. These resources were developed to enable students to understand, summarize, and analyze original texts of historical significance. Through a step-by-step process, students will acquire the skills to analyze any primary or secondary source material.

This video from Evolution explores the evolution of humans from a common ancestor of humans, chimpanzees, and other apes.

This video from Evolution highlights Charles Darwin's personal struggle to bring to light his theory of evolution through natural selection.

In this video from Evolution, an exploration of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in the Russian prison system highlights one reason it is important to understand evolution.

How do you make artwork that is conceptual? Artist Robb Godshaw uses technical means to move things that can’t be moved, or make visible things that aren’t normally visible. Watch as Godshaw scavenges electronic waste during an artist residency at SF Recology.