Perspectives on Evolution
Posted by jeremyl on March 7, 2008
Join us for this special day of guest speakers and hands-on activities exploring different facets of evolution. We will begin with a talk by *U.S. Federal District Judge John E. Jones,* who issued the decision in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District case in December 2005. He ruled that the school district’s policy requiring biology teachers to teach Intelligent Design was unconstitutional. Nearly forty years earlier, in 1968, the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that the State of
Arkansas’ 1928 anti-evolution law was unconstitutional in the Epperson v. Arkansas case.
Our second guest speaker, *Susan Epperson,* was teaching 10^th -grade biology in Little Rock at the time, and was asked by the Arkansas Education Association to be the plaintiff in this landmark case. Susan currently teaches biology and chemistry at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and will speak about her experience. BSI Science Squad
members will lead four breakout sessions that emphasize hands-on evolution activities for the classroom:
1) Horizontal Gene Transfer, Bacterial Evolution, and Antibiotic Resistance;
2) The Human Body in Primate Time;
3) Cultural Evolution, Natural Selection and Population Growth;
4) Natural Selection, Adaptive Radiation and Phylogenetic Trees Using Galapagos finches.
*Date*: Saturday, April 5, 2008
*Time*: 9 am – 5 pm
*Location*: University of Colorado at Boulder
*Workshop Cost*: Free
*CDE Credit*: .5 (free)
*CU Graduate Credit*: .5 ($35)
*Designed for*: Middle and high school teachers
*Instructors: *BSI Science Squad
You may register online at:
*www.colorado.edu/Outreach/BSI/k12/reserve.cgi**
We will confirm your registration by email; please call (303) 492-8230 if you do not hear from us.
To check out other BSI workshops and opportunities for teachers, visit:
http://www.colorado.edu/Outreach/BSI/k12.html
Address: BSI, 470 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309
Phone: 303-492-8230
Fax: 303-492-4916
Email: BSI@colorado.edu
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