A variety of materials to teach children about Wallace's life and work
1) A 30 minute educational film "The Origin of Species: The Making of a Theory" which explains how Wallace and Darwin came to independently discover natural selection: http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/origin-species-making-theory It is accompanied by a variety of excellent classroom resources, including one called "Discovering the Wallace Line": click HERE
2) This excellent 8 minute animated film gives a nice summary of Wallace's life story - CLICK HERE
3) A teaching resource about Wallace's eclipse by Darwin: http://theday.co.uk/science/forgotten-father-of-evolution-honoured-at-last
4) "Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace" an excellent book in the Collins Big Cat guided reading series for ages 4–11 - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Collins-Big-Cat-Charles-Wallace/dp/0007530145