These are resources for additional information and classroom activities that you might find helpful.

Evolution Texts:

• Evolution & Creationism: A Very Short Guide, 2nd ed., by Warren D. Allmon, 2009, Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, NY, 128 pp., ISBN 978-0-87710-484-1.
• Evolution - A Very Short Introduction, by Brian & Deborah Charlesworth, 2003. Oxford University Press, 145 pp., ISBN 978-0-192802-51-4.
• Assembling the Tree of Life, edited by Joel Cracraft & Michael J. Donoghue, 2004. Oxford University Press, 576 pp., 978-0-19517-234-8.
• Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life, by Niles Eldredge, 2005. Norton, 256 pp., ISBN 978-0-39305-966-3.
• Evolution (Biology Modular Workbook Series), by Tracey Greenwood, Lyn Shepherd, Richard Allen, & Daniel Butler, 2006. Biozone International, 100 pp., ISBN 978-1-87732-988-3.
• Evolving Planet: Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, by Erica Kelly & Richard Kissel, 2008. Abrams, 136 pp., ISBN 978-0-81099-486-7.
• Darwin and Evolution for Kids: His Life and Ideas with 21 Activities, by Kristan Lawson, 2003. Chicago Review Press, 146 pp., ISBN 978-1-55652-502-5.
• The Tree of Life: a Phylogenetic Classification, by Guillaume Lecointre & Hervé Le Guyader, 2006. Belknap Press, 560 pp., ISBN 978-0-67402-183-9.
• The Concise Geologic Time Scale, by James G. Ogg, Gabi Ogg, & Felix M. Gradstein, 2008. Cambridge University Press, 177 pp., ISBN 978-0-52189-849-2.
• The Evolution of Useful Things, by Henry Petroski, 1994. Knopf, 304 pp., ISBN 978-0-67974-039-1. Includes a comprehensive history of the evolution of paper clip design.
• See also: The evolution of artifacts, by Henry Petroski, 1992, American Scientist, 80(5): 416 ff.
• See also: Learning from paper clips, by Henry Petroski, 1995, American Scientist, 83: 313-316.
• Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think About our Lives, by David Sloan Wilson, 2007. Bantam Dell, 390 pp., ISBN 978-0-38534-092-2.
• Evolution, 3rd ed., by Mark Ridley, 2004. Blackwell, 751 pp., ISBN 978-1-40510-345-9.

Bivalve Texts:

• Seashells of Southern Florida: Living Marine Mollusks of the Florida Keys and Adjacent Regions: Bivalves, by Paula M. Mikkelsen and Rüdiger Bieler, 2007, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 496 pp., ISBN 978-0-69111-606-8.
• Bivalve Seashells of Western North America: Marine Bivalve Mollusks from Arctic Alaska to Baja California, by Eugene V. Coan, Paul Valentich Scott, and F. R. Bernard, 2000, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, viii + 764 pp., ISBN 978-0-93649-430-2.

Evolution Online:

• Evolution: This View of Life [online magazine]
• Learning Science, Biological Evolution
• Nature, 15 Evolutionary Gems
• PBS, Evolution
• Evolution Activities, Texas Tech University, Center for the Integration of Science Education & Research
  
• Understanding Evolution, University of California Museum of Paleontology
• Tools for Ambitious Science Teaching
• Tracing a Prospective Learning Progression for Developing Understanding of Evolution, by K. Catley, R. Lehrer, & Brian Reiser, 2004, National Academy of Sciences
• Tree of Life: See How Living Things Are Related
• TimeTree: The Timescale of Life

Bivalves Online:

• Assembling the Tree of Life: The Bivalve Mollusks
• Marine Bivalve Shells of the British Isles
• Bivalve Fossil Record, University of Bristol
• A Teacher’s Guide to Marine Life of the Gulf of Maine, by Elaine P. Jones, et al., Maine Department of Marine Resources, Education Division [includes classroom activities for clam, quahog, mussel, oyster, and scallop]