We offer a free teaching tool for educators who are inspired by Your Inner Fish and want to share it with their students. Download the free PowerPoint slides with the figures and captions from Your Inner Fish for use in your classroom. (Note: this is a zipped PowerPoint file, but the file is still quite large so the download may take some time. If you have trouble with the zipped file, try the unzipped PowerPoint file. If you need a smaller but uneditable version, try the pdf.) Also available by chapter.

On the Web

ActionBioscience.org — This website is published by the American Institute of Biological Sciences and contains numerous articles and teaching resources in biology, genomics, evolution, and biotech, among others. All of their information is also available in Spanish.

Devonian Times — Additional information on Devonian plants and animals discovered at one of our field sites in Pennsylvania.

Evolution 101 — Interested in learning about the nuts and bolts of evolution? The University of California's Museum of Paleontology has a site that will not disappoint. Special teacher's resources also available.

Tree of Life — 4000+ pages of information about the diversity of organisms on Earth and their evolutionary history.

Evolving Planet — Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History has a beautiful new permanent exhibit on the history of life on Earth. If you can't visit in person, this website will take you through some of the highlights. Teacher's resources and general information on evolution available as well.

Encyclopedia of Life — The Encyclopedia of Life is a project in the works. Their goal is to create a web page for each of the estimated 1.8 million species on our planet. Students, teachers, scientists, and naturalists are invited to contribute content or volunteer with the project in a variety of ways. When it is complete, it will provide an online record of the vast array of life on earth.

Maps & Mapping Projects

Google Earth — Download this software and explore Ellesmere Island and the world!

Paleomap Project — See how the continents have drifted and changed shape over time.

Articles available online

• Evolution: Fact and Theory by Richard Lenski. ActionBioscience.org, September 2000. En español: Evolución: Hecho y Teoría
• "Fish Out of Water" by Neil Shubin. Adapted from his book, Your Inner Fish, for The University of Chicago Magazine, 2008.
• "A Fin is a Limb is a Wing" by Carl Zimmer. National Geographic, 2006.
• "Our Cousin the Fishapod" by J. Madeleine Nash. TIME 10 April 2006.
• "Missing Links and Found Links" by Pat Shipman. American Scientist, November-December 2006.
• "Fish Fossil Fills Evolutionary Gap" by Kathryn Hansen. GeoTimes, June 2006.
• "Meet Your Ancestor" by Bob Holmes. New Scientist, 09 September 2006.

Articles available at your local library

• "The cranial endoskeleton of Tiktaalik roseae," by J.P. Downs, E.B. Daeschler, N.H. Shubin. Nature Vol. 455. pp. 925-929.
  (online for subscribers)
• "A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan," by E.B. Daeschler, N.H. Shubin, F.A. Jenkins, Jr. Nature Vol. 440. pp. 757-763.
  (online for subscribers)
• "The pectoral fin of Tiktaalik roseae and the origin of the tetrapod limb," by N.H. Shubin, E.B. Daeschler, F.A. Jenkins, Jr. Nature Vol. 440. pp. 764-771.
  (online for subscribers)
• "Amphibious Ancestors" by Sid Perkins. Science News, 17 June 2006.
  (online for subscribers)
• "The Fish that Changed the World" by Gerry Bishop. Ranger Rick, October 2006.

Books

• Your Inner Fish; A Journey into the 3.5-Billion Year History of the Human Body
  by Neil Shubin
• The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History Between Rocks, Planets, and People
  by Neil Shubin
• Science, Evolution, and Creationism National Academies Press. This books is available online for free.
• Why Evolution is True
  by Jerry Coyne
• Endless Forms Most Beautiful
  by Sean Carroll
• At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs, and How Life Came Ashore but Then Went Back to Sea
  by Carl Zimmer
• The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
  by Richard Dawkins

Children's Books, Ages 9-12

• When Fish Got Feet, Sharks Got Teeth, and Bugs Began to Swarm A cartoon Prehistory of Life Long Before Dinosaurs
  (featuring Tiktaalik!) By Hannah Bonner.
• When Bugs Were Big, Plants Were Strange, and Tetrapods Stalked the Earth
  A humorous and informative jaunt through the life forms that inhabited the earth before dinosaurs came on the scene. By Hannah Bonner.
• Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway
  An Epoch Tale of a Scientist and an Artist on the Ultimate 5,000-Mile Paleo Road Trip. By Kirk Johnson, Illustratred by Ray Troll. Available with a companion map of fossil locales in the United States.

DVDs

• Your Inner Fish, Your Inner Reptile, and Your Inner Monkey
  This 3-part PBS special hosted by Neil Shubin is based off his best-selling book by the same name.
• Evolution, Boxed Set
  This 8-hour PBS special features interviews with Neil Shubin and Ted Daeschler in the second episode titled, "Great Transformations."
• Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial
  A film by NOVA about the famous Dover, Pennsylvania trial, Kitzmiller v. Dover School District, which circled around the teaching of evolution in public schools.