Classroom pathways
Use short, topic-based launches that connect one platform to a clear question, expected observations, and follow-up discussion.
Teaching pathways, workshop materials, and linked resources for evolution, ecology, and scientific thinking.
Curriculum Hub
This section collects classroom pathways, workshop materials, and tool-linked teaching resources under the evo-edu.org frame. Legacy Avida-ED materials remain available, but this hub is the top-level instructional entry point.
How To Use This Section
Use short, topic-based launches that connect one platform to a clear question, expected observations, and follow-up discussion.
Use curated sequences and archived facilitator materials when the goal is teacher preparation or guided collaborative exploration.
Pair the Notebook with one or two focused tools and then extend with readings, literature search, and longer investigations.
Pathway Launches
Use concrete questions, visible change, and shorter investigations that connect directly to organisms, evidence, and observable patterns.
Build around NGSS-aligned modeling, evidence-based explanation, and comparison across evolutionary and ecological mechanisms.
Pair the Notebook, interactive tools, and literature support into a route for motivated independent study.
Standards Mapping
Use the new NGSS mapping page to see how current platforms connect to performance expectations, science practices, and pathway use.
Use a first complete pack built around Allele Tracker and Gene Flow Mapper for high-school population-change work.
Use a first ecology pack built around EcoBalance, Climate Range Shifter, and EcoSpecies for high-school environmental-response work.
Use a middle-school pack built around quick comparison, visible change, and organism-grounded explanation.
Use a self-learner pack that ties together investigation, bibliography growth, and explicit revision through source work.
Current Entry Points
Use Digital Evolution Lab, Shape Evolver, and Cumulative Selection Explorer to investigate variation, selection, adaptation, and evolutionary change.
Use Allele Tracker, Gene Flow Mapper, and Life Cycle Modeler to study inheritance, movement, demography, and changing populations.
Use EcoSpecies, EcoBalance, and Climate Range Shifter to connect ecological systems, biodiversity evidence, and environmental change.
Linked Resources
Archived train-the-trainer materials remain useful for facilitation, sequencing, and instructor preparation.
Student FAQs, instructor FAQs, and other practical materials remain available while the evo-edu curriculum structure is expanded.
The older Avida-ED curriculum page remains available as a secondary archive for continuity and reference.