Explain
Foundational materials like the Notebook give learners and educators a coherent conceptual starting point.
Open resources for evolution, ecology, and scientific thinking across classrooms, workshops, and self-directed study.
Mission
evo-edu.org supports classroom teaching, workshops, and self-directed study with explanatory materials, interactive investigations, curated learning pathways, and research-support tools.
How We Support Learning
Foundational materials like the Notebook give learners and educators a coherent conceptual starting point.
Interactive tools let learners explore change, evidence, systems, inheritance, and selection through direct manipulation.
Curriculum, workshop resources, and research-support tools help teachers and self-learners go further.
Across the site, learners should be pushed toward curiosity, honesty, skepticism, attentiveness, and willingness to revise in light of evidence.
Population genetics and population change
An interactive population-genetics tool for comparing forces that shape variation and evolutionary change.
An interactive landscape-genetics tool for investigating dispersal, fragmentation, and population structure.
Ecology and environmental dynamics
An interactive life-history and demography tool for comparing growth, decline, vulnerability, and persistence.
An interactive ecology model for comparing cycles, constraints, intervention, and system behavior over time.
An interactive climate-and-range-change model for comparing mismatch, movement, and environmental response.
Artificial life and evolutionary computation
The evo-edu public entry point into Avida-ED and related digital-evolution learning materials.
An interactive biomorph-style tool for exploring variation, inheritance, constraint, and visible change over time.
An interactive optimization tool for comparing routes, heuristics, and generational improvement in a TSP-style problem.
An interactive network-design tool for comparing efficiency, tradeoffs, and optimization strategies.
Research support and extension
A research-support tool for finding related literature, building reading lists, and expanding bibliographies with CiteGeist support.
Featured Resources
Interactive digital evolution investigations anchored in Avida-ED and related materials.
Species and ecology resources that connect biodiversity evidence to broader ecological reasoning.
A guided-study companion for sequencing activities, review, and follow-up work around the core resources.
Resources
A conceptual foundation for evolutionary and ecological thinking that can anchor both teaching and self-study.
Lesson materials, workshop archives, and support pages that make the tools more usable in real instructional contexts.
The current plan for broader NGSS coverage, clearer pathways, and stronger connections between resources.
A short guide to the habits of inquiry that should shape how learners use the tools, read evidence, and revise explanations.