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Workshop Offerings for Winter 2009
Teach Evolution -- Yes We Can and Yes We Should
As part of our 20th anniversary celebration, BSI is honored to host three special guests who will provide local and national resources for teachers to support their teaching of evolution in the public schools. Dr. Eugenie Scott, the Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), will open the day with a lecture "Why Biology Makes Sense." The NCSE provides information and resources to schools and is dedicated to keeping evolution in the public school classroom.
A panel discussion will follow: Susan Epperson, a teacher who was the plaintiff in the landmark Epperson v. Arkansas case, and James DeGregori, founding member of the Colorado Evolution Response Team and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Colorado's School of Medicine, will join Dr. Scott. Discussing the historic legal challenges to teaching evolution in the classroom, the panel will examine the resources available locally and nationally to support teachers and schools in responding to these legal challenges.
Dr. Scott will also lead an afternoon breakout session addressing the most common arguments used by anti-evolutionists. All participants will have the opportunity to attend this breakout session. BSI Outreach Scientists and/or Science Squad will teach additional breakout sessions that include evolution activities for the classroom.
Date: Saturday, April 11, 2009
Time: 8:30 am - 5 pm
Location: University of Colorado at Boulder
CDE Credit: 0.5 (free)
Graduate Credit: 0.5 ($40)
Workshop Cost: Free
Designed for: Middle and high school teachers
Forensic Science Education Conference
The American Academy of Forensic Science (AAFS), CU-Boulder, and the Biological Sciences Initiative (BSI) are pleased to co-sponsor the Forensic Science Educational Conference, designed to help teachers engage young people in the science underlying forensics, beyond the media portrayals.
The three-day conference provides current information, resources and practical exercises designed to increase knowledge of the forensic sciences. Local and national forensic experts will address the technical aspects of their forensic fields (e.g. CSI, anthropology, DNA) and demonstrate how forensic science can be incorporated into middle and high school physical, social, and biological sciences curricula.
Participants will engage in hands-on exercises in laboratory-based forensic science, demonstrating the analysis of particular types of crime scene evidence. Laboratory activities will emphasize hypothesis-driven investigations, and will underscore basic scientific principles. Participants will learn how the scientific method is applied to both the recovery of evidence from the scene of the crime and subsequent laboratory testing of physical evidence, including:
* Determination of Cause and Manner of Death
* Crime scene investigation
* Fingerprint Analysis: Then and Now
* Documents and Handwriting Analysis
* NecroSearch International and Locating Clandestine Graves
* Forensic Botany, Entomology, and Anthropology
* Legal Aspects related to Forensics
* Mitochondrial DNA and Proteomics
Registration must be completed through the AAFS Website. Click here to register:
Note: This conference is open to 100 teachers nationwide. Through the collaboration of BSI and AAFS, the $250 conference fee will be waived for the first 50 Colorado teachers who register.
Date: Monday - Wednesday, June 8-10, 2009
Time: 8 am - 5 pm
Location: University of Colorado at Boulder
CDE Credit: 1.5 (free)
Graduate Credit: 1.5 ($100)
Workshop Cost: Free
Designed for: Middle and High school teachers
Human Evolution Workshop
Help make human evolution come alive for your students. Update your knowledge of our human ancestry and access tools that will make teaching human evolution easier.
Students want to know how paleontologists recognize where to find fossils and how they know the ages of the fossils. In this workshop geologist Dr. Tom Bown will draw from field experience in human and non-human primate fossil research in Ethiopia, Kenya, Egypt, India, Argentina, and Wyoming to answer those questions.
Biological anthropologist Kim Nichols will provide updated perspectives on Homo erectus in light of recent fossil discoveries in Dmanisi, Georgia and southeast Asia. The presenters will also discuss how geologic dates influence species classification, and the relationship between the fossil record and molecular dating, and how they inform current hypotheses about key events in human evolution.
Lab exercises, using the BSI skull collection, will provide teachers with hands-on experience using human fossil casts to (1) diagnose taxonomic groups and (2) discern dietary and locomotor adaptations. This set contains skulls, pelvis and femurs from several specimens that teachers can borrow for use in their classrooms.
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Time: 9 am - 5 pm
Location: University of Colorado at Boulder
CDE Credit: 0.5 (free)
Graduate Credit: 0.5 ($40)
Workshop Cost: Free
Designed for: Middle and High school teachers
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