The Need for Interdisciplinary Dialog in Evolution Education: A Comment on the Responses by Ware & Gelman and Shtulman

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 846-848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kostas Kampourakis
Keyword(s):  
Evolution Education ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialog

scholarly journals Science standards: The foundation of evolution education in the United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 59-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Watts ◽  
Georgy S. Levit ◽  
Uwe Hoßfeld
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Evolution Education ◽  
Science Standards

Small Fish, Big Questions: Inquiry Kits for Teaching Evolution

2018 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily A. Kane ◽  
E. Dale Broder ◽  
Andrew C. Warnock ◽  
Courtney M. Butler ◽  
A. Lynne Judish ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Selection ◽  
Evolution Education ◽  
Small Fish ◽  
Teaching Evolution ◽  
Local Schools ◽  
Broader Impacts ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Education And Outreach ◽  
Evolution By Natural Selection

Evolution education poses unique challenges because students can have preconceptions that bias their learning. Hands-on, inquiry approaches can help overcome preset beliefs held by students, but few such programs exist and teachers typically lack access to these resources. Experiential learning in the form of self-guided kits can allow evolution education programs to maximize their reach while still maintaining a high-quality resource. We created an inquiry-based kit that uses live Trinidadian guppies to teach evolution by natural selection using the VIST (Variation, Inheritance, Selection, Time) framework. Our collaborative team included evolutionary biologists and education specialists, and we were able to combine expertise in evolution research and inquiry-based kit design in the development of this program. By constructing the kits with grant funds slated for broader impacts and maintaining them at our university's Education and Outreach Center, we made these kits freely available to local schools over the long term. Students and teachers have praised how clearly the kits teach evolution by natural selection, and we are excited to share this resource with readers of The American Biology Teacher.

scholarly journals EvMedEd: A Teaching Resource for Integrating Medical Examples into Evolution Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-126
Author(s):  
Daniel Z. Grunspan ◽  
Randolph M. Nesse ◽  
Sara E. Brownell
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Evolution Education ◽  
Evolutionary Medicine ◽  
Effective Strategy ◽  
Introductory Biology ◽  
Teaching Evolution ◽  
Teaching Resource ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
Classroom Use ◽  
Health Careers

Teaching evolution using medical examples can be a particularly effective strategy for motivating students to learn evolutionary principles, especially students interested in pursuing medical and allied health careers. Research in the area of evolutionary medicine has expanded the number of ways in which evolution informs health and disease, providing many new and less widely known contexts that can be adopted for classroom use. However, many instructors do not have time to locate or create classroom materials about evolutionary medicine. To address this need, we have created EvMedEd, a resource repository to help instructors who want to integrate more medical examples into their evolution instruction or instructors who are teaching a course on evolutionary medicine. Some resources are designed to be more appropriate for a high school or introductory biology audience, whereas others are more advanced. We encourage instructors to access this curated website and to share their own teaching materials with this community.

scholarly journals A Cross-Course Investigation of Integrative Cases for Evolution Education †

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter John Thomas White ◽  
James J. Smith ◽  
Merle K. Heidemann
Keyword(s):  
Evolution Education
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