TEACHERS’  EVOLUTION  WORKSHOP

 Link to Registration Form

Thanks to another grant from the Delta Foundation, Oklahomans for Excellence in Science Education - OESE, (www.biosurvey.ou.edu/oese), is organizing a professional development workshop for Oklahoma high school science teachers and undergraduate and graduate students in science education on Teaching Evolution in the 21st Century to be held the weekend of October 24-26, 2008 at the University of Oklahoma Biological Station (sponsor) on Lake Texoma.  Attendees will earn a certificate of participation for professional development credit.

Topics covered will include: internet resources on teaching evolution, the logic of scientific investigation, evo-devo, genomics, the fossil record and macroevolution, dealing with classroom and community controversy, and the various forms of creationism, including intelligent design and “teach the controversy”.  Emphasis will be on the scientific evidences and mechanisms of evolution.

Instructors include Ola Fincke (Zoology, OU), Victor Hutchison (Zoology, OU), Frank Sonleitner (Zoology, OU),  Richard Broughton (Zoology, OU), Joseph Maness (Biology, SWOSU), Stanley Rice (Biology, SEOSU), Bob Melton (Science Curriculum Specialist, Putnam City Schools).

SCHOLARSHIPS TO COVER ALL COSTS (room, board, textbooks and other materials) ARE AVAILABLE TO THE 30 PARTICIPANTS SELECTED.  Scholarships also include a check for $200 for travel and other expenses.  Deadline for applications will be September 15, 2008. Earlier application is advised.   Applicants will be notified of acceptance by e-mail on or about October 1, 2008.

"This workshop made possible by a grant from the DELTA Foundation."

Registration forms are on-line at:
                                     
                                www.ou.edu/uobs/teachers.htm

Information on the University of Oklahoma Biological Station, including maps and directions, description of facilities, etc., is at:

                                 www.ou.edu/uobs/

To sign up for the Oklahoma Evolution list serve and for many teaching resources, news, events, books, humor, petition on science only in science classes,  and much, more see the OESE web site.  Links there also go to information on the workshop:

                                 www.biosurvey.ou.edu/oese/

LAKE TEXOMA OFFICE

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HC 71, Box 205
Kingston, OK 73439-9738

Phone: (405) 325-7431 OR
(580) 564-2478
Fax: (580) 564-2479

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Norman, OK 73019-6121

Phone: (405) 325-5391
Fax: (405) 325-0835