Materials created by others to teach childern 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: http://videowest.kuer.org/arwallace/
3) A nice teaching resource about Wallace's life and work - click HERE
4) Wallace learning resources from the Natural History Museum, London: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/education/online-resources/wallace-collection-learn...
5) "Alfred Russel Wallace & the Origin of New Species" teaching notes: http://www1.umn.edu/ships/modules/biol/Wallace-teaching-notes.pdf
6) "Alfred Russel Wallace: Adversity and Perseverance": http://science-stories.org/subject/biological-sciences/wallace/
7) A teaching resource about Wallace's eclipse by Darwin: http://theday.co.uk/science/forgotten-father-of-evolution-honoured-at-last
8) "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