Darwin's Idea: video worksheets, differentiated

Please ensure you can access the film before getting this resource. Comprehensive, thorough, 18-minute documentary really drills down into the origins, evidence, and significance of Darwin’s ideas. Clearly and passionately articulated, covering: observations from HMS Beagle, descent with modification, mutation, Fitness, natural selection, fossils. Scientific vs. vernacular meaning of “theory”. Beginnings of palaeontology, the age of the earth, the bible. Lamarck; Darwin on the Galapagos, adaptation in finches. Slow publication of The Origin of Species, AR Wallace. Speciation is only apparently discrete, gaps in fossil record, analogy with artificial selection: dogs, plants. New insights from genetics.

Find the film on YouTube by searching for “Charles Darwin’s Idea: Descent With Modification”

15 questions for the 18-min film Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Questions right up to the end, no slack time! Excellent subtitles, scripted, not auto-generated. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files.