Use of OneZoom in education
OneZoom has been used by students of all ages in classrooms, lecture theatres and home learning environments. We're looking for teachers and educators to help create learning materials and lesson plans that use OneZoom. If you're using OneZoom for teaching and learning and have some materials that you are willing to share with others, please let us know and we'll populate this page with downloads and links to these materials so that others can benefit from them.
The COVID-19 pandemic, which closed many schools and universities across the globe, highlighted the importance of tools for home learning. If you're a teacher or home educator with an idea of activities to do at home with OneZoom, please let us know and we'll post your suggestions here.
Please help
Join the growing community of teachers and educators using OneZoom in the classroom and lecture theatre to aid learning about biodiversity and evolution. We want to support you in this, so please ask if you have any questions.
Linnean Learning
The Linnean Society of London has produced a wonderful set of educational materials , including materials you can use at home which feature OneZoom.
Above: OneZoom launch event at the Linnean Society of London in April 2017
Downloadable materials
Our main educational product is our tree of life explorer. We have made some other educational materials as a way to motive exploration with questions that can be answered by using the tree of life explorer.
The maze of life puzzle is suitable for students age 16 and above. It will likely require them to use our tree of life explorer to find out how closely related different species are and thus solve the maze. The downloadable PDF is free to use and distribute under a CC-BY license. We do not provide straight answers online but if you're really stuck please write to us and we'll give you a clue.
There are over 2 million species of life on earth. One testament to this is the vernacular (common) names that have been chosen to represent some of them - there are just too many to give them all sensible names! Try our fill-in-the-blanks quiz of species names to see what we mean. It would be fun to guess the answers in teams, for example at a quiz night. If you're serious about getting the answers right you'll probably need to use the search bar on our website and the answers will be immediate.