Hands-on activities, games, and investigations guide students to explore integrated topics from biology and Earth science. They'll learn how the factors that shape evolutionary processes - adaptation and natural selection - are influenced by ecological pressures. Using the historic Galapagos Islands as a running theme, the material emphasizes the processes of science that form our present understanding of biogeography and evolution. Provides students with the opportunity to connect their learning to the same processes of biology and Earth science in their own communities. The lessons are keyed to the National Science Education Standards, with assessment suggestions, rubrics, and Internet extensions through the NSTA sciLINKS program.--Back cover.