Charles Darwin Interactive Biography - Evolution and the Beagle Voyage - Grades 6-12
By Micah's Learning Resources
This Charles Darwin interactive biography turns the voyage of the Beagle and the long road to natural selection into a self-guided activity that opens in any browser with no prep, no logins, and no installs. Students follow Darwin (1809-1882) from a Shrewsbury boyhood and an abandoned medical degree onto a five-year survey voyage, then into the twenty-year silence at Down House before he finally published. What Students Explore - Biography: Five illustrated eras covering the Shrewsbury boyhood and the false starts at Edinburgh and Cambridge, the five-year Beagle voyage, the long quiet years of theorizing at Down House, the letter from Wallace that forced publication of On the Origin of Species, and the final books and the Westminster Abbey burial - Timeline: A two-track timeline of 43 events setting Darwin's life beside the geology debates, the Great Exhibition, the American Civil War, and Mendel publishing his pea experiments unnoticed - Map: Thirteen places that shaped the story, from Shrewsbury and Edinburgh through Plymouth, Salvador, Tierra del Fuego, the Galapagos, Sydney and Cape Town, and home to Down House - Connections: A 22-node web of the people, works, events and institutions in the story, including his wife and cousin Emma Wedgwood, his mentor John Stevens Henslow, Captain Robert FitzRoy, the geologist Charles Lyell, Alfred Russel Wallace whose letter forced his hand, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Henry Huxley, and Bishop Wilberforce of the 1860 Oxford debate - Sources