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Evolution: Education and Outreach. [Journal]
FREE PDFs of any or all of 103 articles, many of them great.

Go to one of these pages:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/120878/ OR here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/120878/?sortorder=asc&v=expanded

Notice the Article Category links on the right side. These allow you select Curricula and Essays on Teaching Evolution, Lesson plans, Overcoming Obstacles to Evolution Education, etc.

Note that that the most recent issue is on eye evolution. Interesting to students and many key topics including how do complex organs evolve, convergence and complex evolutionary processes, imperfections as clear evidence of evolution, molecular mechanisms.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/m3k441k67q3n/?p=c41bed9f17014e5c80025c33d9a13846&pi=0

Quote: Targeting K-16 students, teachers and scientists alike, the journal presents articles to aid members of these communities in the teaching of evolutionary theory. It connects teachers with scientists by adapting cutting-edge, peer-reviewed articles for classroom use on varied instructional levels. The journal features multi-authored papers written by teachers and scientists and offers teaching tools such as unit and lesson plans and classroom activities, as well as additional online content such as podcasts and powerpoint presentations.
http://www.springer.com/life+sci/journal/12052?detailsPage=description

Sample abstract in the Eye Evolution volume (complete article available in PDF):
Go to http://www.springerlink.com/content/120878/
Click on Volume 1, Number 4 (Special Issue: The Evolution of Eyes); Select:
Opening the "Black Box": The Genetic and Biochemical Basis of Eye Evolution
Todd H. Oakley and M. Sabrina Pankey
(1) Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA

Received: 23 July 2008 Accepted: 10 September 2008 Published online: 23 October 2008
Abstract Eyes provide a rich narrative for understanding evolution, having attracted the attention of preeminent scientists and communicators alike. Until recently, this narrative has focused primarily on the evolution of eye structure and far less on biochemistry or genetics. Although eye biochemistry was once likened to an unknown "black box;" the flood of discoveries in biochemistry is now allowing an increasingly detailed understanding of the processes involved in vision. As a result, evolutionary comparative ("tree-thinking") analyses that use these data currently allow a new and still unfolding narrative, both richer in detail and more comprehensive in scope. Rather than toppling evolutionary theory by finding irreducibly complex molecular machines, eye evolution provides detailed accounts of how natural processes tinker with existing genetic components, duplicating and recombining them, to yield complex, intricate, and highly functional eyes. Understanding the new biochemical narrative is critical for researchers and teachers alike, in order to answer anti-evolutionist claims, and to provide an up-to-date account of the state of knowledge on the subject of eye evolution.