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Educator Materials and Guides
Looking for creative ways to teach evolution in your classroom? Take a look at our exciting variety of educator guides, and other materials designed to support your classroom curriculum:
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 Downloadable Evolving Planet Educator Guide
To prepare students for a trip to The Field Museum’s Evolving Planet exhibition, take advantage of the activities and information provided in the Evolving Planet Educator Guide. This downloadable guide contains a walking map of the exhibition, short content guides for each section of the exhibition, and pre-, during-, and post-field trip activities for each section of the exhibition. The Guide also contains a list of books and educational materials for teachers and students. A print version of this guide is available by calling 312.665.7555.
 To Download* and print the Evolving Planet Educators Guide you will need will need Acrobat Reader
Section 1: Pre-Visit, Field Trip, and Post-Visit Activities
(104pp, 2mb)
Section 2: Related Programs, Exhibitions, and Resources
(11pp, 244kb)
Section 3: Evolving Planet Walking Map
(4pp, 300kb)
Additional Downloads Available:
Prehistoric Crossword (108kb)
Period Overview Part 1 (204kb)
Period Overview Part 2 (192kb)
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Teaching Evolution: Exploring Our Evolving Planet
Want additional tips for teaching evolution? Call or email the Harris Educational Loan Center at 312.665.7555 to obtain your copy of Teaching Evolution: Exploring Our Evolving Planet. This short guide reviews key concepts in evolution, such as natural selection, variation, and phylogeny. The guide includes step-by-step instructions for teachers and is adaptable for 4th-12th grades.
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Biodiversity on Our Evolving Planet
Biodiversity on Our Evolving Planet is a teaching guide for investigating mass extinction throughout Earth’s history and the human causes of contemporary extinctions today. The guide engages students in activities to help conserve biodiversity. Call or email the Harris Educational Loan Center to obtain your copy now at 312.665.7555.
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Harris Educatoinal Loan Center Experience Boxes
Put real fossils and evidence for evolution in the hands of your students by borrowing one of these Experience Boxes for your classroom. Visit the Harris Educational Loan Center Web Site to reserve these ready-to-use teaching kits now: Dinosaurs and Their Times: Cretaceous, Dinosaurs and Their Times: Jurassic, 300 Million Years Ago in Illinois, Dinosaurs and other Mesozoic creatures, Hominid Evolution, and Dinosaur Dinners.
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Evolving Planet Classroom Poster
Get your copy of our Evolving Planet Classroom Poster available through the Harris Educational Loan Center or by calling 312.665.7555. This beautiful 17” x 22” color poster contains a snapshot of biodiversity on Earth with identification labels, info on Field Museum evolution programs for students and teachers, and a fun evolution activity to reproduce for your students.
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