In this case study, students will be introduced to active conservation work going on in Africa. Set against the restoration of war-torn Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, The Guide tells the story of a young man from the local community who discovers a passion for science after meeting world-renowned biologist E.O. Wilson. Produced by Academy Award winning filmmaker Jessica Yu, the film weaves themes in conservation biology and environmental science, the value of scientific mentorship, and the social and economic realities of wilderness restoration. The film and accompanying resources serve as a case study in ecology and conservation biology.

Students to read detailed scientific passages and explain how an understanding of specfifc icefish adaptations might lead to a treatment or cure for human disorders, such as osteoporosis and anemia.

In this hands-on activity students examine the evidence for the evolution of human bipedality as revealed by a trail of fossil footprints. Students first study footprints made by themselves or their classmates using paint. Next, they make observations and draw inferences from an illustration of the Laetoli trackway, compare their own footprints from those at Laetoli, and evaluate the evidence that the Laetoli footprints were made by a fully bipedal human ancestor.

In this activity, students will use trail camera data to answer a scientific research question about the impacts of humans on species diversity in Gorongosa.

In this activity, students study a family pedigree and a map of single nucleotides polymorphisms along one arm of a chromosome for each of the family members in order to better understand how a mutation in a single gene is the likely cause of the disorder.

This video discusses how transgenic organisms are engineered and how they enable researchers to study genetic diseases.

In this lesson, students will learn about how food webs are constructed and trophic levels in an ecological community. They will then use animals that they identify in WildCam Gorongosa to construct food chains and food webs, and study the impacts of disturbances.

In this lesson, students will use an interactive map of Gorongosa National Park to learn about biomes. They will then explore E.O. Wilson’s Life on Earth iBook to learn about the varied landscapes and vegetation types in Gorongosa.

In this activity, students will collect actual data from WildCam Gorongosa and use those data to create graphs and answer an ecological question of their choice.

In this activity, students evaluate and discuss statements about the evolutionary relationship between birds and dinosaurs and other facts about these groups, before and after watching the short film Great Transitions: The Origin of Birds.

This virtual lab includes four modules that investigate different concepts in evolutionary biology, including adaptation, convergent evolution, phylogenetic analysis, reproductive isolation, and speciation. Each module involves data collection, calculations, analysis and answering questions.

Students are asked to formulate a hypothesis, and collect and analyze real research data to understand how quickly natural selection can act on a population. This activity supports the film The Origin of Species: Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree.

This activity supports the viewing of the film The Origin of Species: The Making of a Theory. Before and after watching the film, students discuss and evaluate several statements about Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, and the specific evidence that led each of them to the theory of evolution by natural selection.

This video discusses the connection between the infectious parasitic disease malaria and the genetic disease sickle cell anemia.

This animation illustrates and describes what happens when a malaria-carrying mosquito bites a human host.

Students work through a series of questions pertaining to the genetics of sickle cell disease and its relationship to malaria.

Students simulate a lactose tolerance test in this lab. They will combine milk with "patients' intestinal fluid samples," which consist of either water or a lactose solution. They then measure the amount of glucose produced over time and collect, analyze, and graph their data to determine which patients are lactose tolerant or lactose intolerant.

In this activity, students study a graph illustrating the proportion of prey captured by three predators for each of six species of arthropod prey. The prey species are listed in order of palatability (based on a combination of all defenses, such as spines and chemicals) with the least palatable on the left and most palatable on the right. Students will analyze the graph and answer a series of questions to determine if members of a mimetic complex enjoy greater protection from predation than nonmimics.

In this activity, students are given a habitat card and then identify and arrange the appropriate species in a food chain. They then indicate how each species affects the species in the trophic level below it in order to illustrate a trophic cascade.

Students interpret molecular diagrams and build physical models of eukaryotic gene regulation in this hands-on activity.