Curriculum Alignment evo-edu.org

Position Digital Evolution Lab within NGSS-aligned questions about evidence, adaptation, and systems.

Curriculum Alignment

How Digital Evolution Lab fits NGSS-oriented teaching

The strongest fit is with evolution, evidence, and systems thinking: learners make predictions, inspect changing populations, and justify explanations from observed outcomes.

Strongest alignment zones

Disciplinary core ideas

  • LS4: biological evolution, common mechanisms, and evidence from change over time
  • LS3: inheritance and variation as they shape evolutionary outcomes

Science practices and crosscutting concepts

  • Analyzing and interpreting data from repeated runs
  • Constructing explanations from observed evidence
  • Cause and effect, systems, and stability/change