Evolution and Natural Selection Lab

Students hunt peppered moths, track finch beaks through droughts, breed corn from teosinte and dig up whale fossils.

Grades 6–8Virtual lab · 4 stations1 student per deviceNo student loginsWorks offline

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Try it free: the demo opens the Start page and Station 1 right in your browser. No sign-up needed.

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Grade level

Grades 6–8: Moth predator game, Daphne Major finch model, teosinte breeding, 5 whale fossils

What students practice

Variation and inherited traits, natural selection, adaptation, artificial selection, fossil record and rock layers, law of superposition, graphing trait change over generations

Standards

NGSS: MS-LS4-1 · MS-LS4-2 · MS-LS4-4 · MS-LS4-5 · MS-LS4-6

How it works

Open the game file in any web browser: Chromebooks, laptops or your smartboard. No accounts, no student logins and no internet needed once it's downloaded.
Each student types their name on the Start page, then works through the stations in order. Each station has a prediction, a hands-on activity, a data table or log that fills in as they work and a check question.
Students finish with a printable lab report (print or save as PDF). The Teacher Notes include the standards, a full answer key and a reset button for shared devices.
Each purchase includes the lab file and a one-page Quick Start guide.