The following lessons can be used to enhance or extend the concepts emphasized in What Did T. rex Taste Like? Additional lessons and activities about phylogenetics can be found on the Understanding Evolution website.

Making Cladograms [PDF]
This lesson introduces students to the building of cladograms as evolutionary trees, showing how shared derived characters can be used to reveal degrees of relationship.

The Great Clade Race – Zombie Island Edition
This activity uses a simple puzzle to get students to use cladistic thinking without bogging them down with terminology.

Island Biogeography and Evolution: Solving a Phylogenetic Puzzle With Molecular Genetics
This activity introduces students to multiple lines of evidence (geography, geology, morphology, and molecular genetics) in order to develop a phylogeny of island lizards.

Teaching the Process of Molecular Phylogeny and Systematics: A Multi-Part Inquiry-Based Exercise
In this activity, students explore molecular data from Homo sapiens and four related primates and develop hypotheses regarding the ancestry of these five species by analyzing DNA sequences, protein sequences, and chromosomal maps.