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Teaching Evolution: A special presentation for Just gotta evolve Workshop

Teaching Evolution: A special presentation for Just gotta evolve Workshop. February 12, 2010 Kimberly Bilica, UTSA Kimberly.Bilica@utsa.edu. Presentation Overview. Welcome! Critical Need for Evolution Education What should we teach about evolution?

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  1. Teaching Evolution:A special presentation forJust gotta evolve Workshop February 12, 2010Kimberly Bilica, UTSA Kimberly.Bilica@utsa.edu

  2. Presentation Overview • Welcome! • Critical Need for Evolution Education • What should we teach about evolution? • Revised 2009 TEKS (Fall 2010 implementation) • How should we teach evolution when there’s so much controversy? • Teaching about the Nature of Science

  3. Critical Need for Evolution Education

  4. Controversy Evolution is likely the most publicly contentious topic to be taught in science classrooms across the nation. Cracraft, 2004

  5. Misconceptions about evolution abound! www.bendib.com/ newones/2003/

  6. Evolution is part of our state curriculum standards! §112.43. Biology. (until Fall 2010) (7)  Science concepts. The student knows the theory of biological evolution. The student is expected to: (A)  identify evidence of change in species using fossils, DNA sequences, anatomical similarities, physiological similarities, and embryology; and (B)  illustrate the results of natural selection in speciation, diversity, phylogeny, adaptation, behavior, and extinction. http://www.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter112/ch112c.html accessed Jan 14, 2008

  7. …and will become an even larger part of our state curriculum standards!

  8. The politics associated with evolution are active! With new TEKS and textbook adoption, creationist organizations will be targeting Texas teachers.

  9. Imitating Science http://www.evolutionnews.org/2007/06/new_textbook_seeks_to_improve.html Discovery Institute & Intelligent Design

  10. What is Intelligent Design (ID)? a philosophy (not theory) which proposes:“…that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection.”(source: http://www.intelligentdesignnetwork.org/ )

  11. First Amendment & Establishment Clause Legal Aspects “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; …”

  12. Religion and Public Schools • According to constitutional law, • Public schools, including personnel, shall remain ‘neutral’ about religion. • Students have the right to private speech, including religious expression.

  13. Presentation Overview • Welcome! • Critical Need for Evolution Education • What should we teach about evolution? • Revised 2009 TEKS (Fall 2010 implementation) • How should we teach evolution when there’s so much controversy? • Teaching the Nature of Science

  14. What should we teach about evolution? • Revised 2009 TEKS (Fall 2010 implementation)

  15. 2010 Elementary Science TEKS: Stepping Up Into Evolution • K-5 • TEKS #10Organisms and Environments • InvestigationsK-1: 80% of instructional time2-3: 60% of instructional time4-5: 50% of instructional time

  16. Kindergarten

  17. Grade 1

  18. Grade 2

  19. Grade 3

  20. Grade 4

  21. Grade 5

  22. 2010 Middle Level Science TEKS: Stepping Up Into Evolution • 6, 7, 8 • Investigations40% of instructional time

  23. Grade 6

  24. Grade 7

  25. Grade 8

  26. High School Biology • Expanding the focus upon Evolution

  27. Biology

  28. TEKS Introduction as Conceptual Frame Nature of Science

  29. Self Reflection: Nature of Science Vocabulary Hypothesis Fact Theory Law Observation Draw a flow chart map that shows the relationship between these concepts. For example: X  Y Z W. McComas, The Myths of Science http://coehp.uark.edu/pase/TheMythsOfScience.pdf

  30. Grade 4, introduction

  31. Grade 7, introduction

  32. Biology, introduction

  33. Presentation Overview • Welcome! • Critical Need for Evolution Education • What should we teach about evolution? • TEKS-TAKS Instructional Alignment Study • How should we teach evolution when there’s so much controversy? • Teaching the Nature of Science

  34. How should we teach evolution when there’s so much controversy? Teaching the Nature of Science

  35. Teaching the Nature of Science

  36. Lessons on Evolution & NOS ENSI/SENSI http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/ • Evolution and the Nature of Science Institutes website Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/evolution98/ • Chapter 6 Activities

  37. Sorting Out Science (Word Wall) Nature of Science Activity Based upon Of Sunsets, Souls and Senses on ENSI website

  38. Activity: Nature of Inquiry Caution: PLEASE DONOT TOUCH ORMOVE THE CUBE! • What is on the bottom side of the cube? • See Activity 1Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/evolution98/ • Chapter 6 Activities

  39. Many thanks for your attention!

  40. Teaching Evolution:A special presentation forJust gotta evolve Workshop February 12, 2010Kimberly Bilica, UTSA Kimberly.Bilica@utsa.edu

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