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Biology 59500 -Teaching Evolution: Online Course for Teachers
Professor Pelaez
Fall 2011 Schedule of Readings and Assignments
 
Verrill's Sea Star
Pages refer to Evolution: A Triumph of an Idea (EV) by Zimmer.

Synchronous online Workshop Meetings at https://gomeet.itap.purdue.edu/evolution/ will be scheduled each week with your assigned peer leader.

 
WEEK DEADLINE TEXT TOPICS/ASSIGNMENT (Subject to change) READINGS
1 8/22

Online Session 1: Nature of Science

 Workshop 0
1 8/24

Face-to-Face Class Meeting
(We will distribute equipment, so bring a laptop to test the equipment)

Wed 4:00-6:00 pm, Lilly 1-224
3 9/6

Workshop Darwin and the Beagle and Origin of Species

EV: 1-25      Ch 1

EV: 27-55    Ch 2
3 9/10

Pre-quiz and Quiz over EV Ch 1-2 and Online session 1  

 
4 9/13

Workshop Online Session 2: Darwin's Theory and Deep Time Discovered

EV: 57-71    Ch 3
5 9/20 or 21

Optional Face-to-Face or Adobe Connect (formerly Macromedia Breeze) Meeting

Tue 5-6 pm or Wed 6-7 pm, Lilly G-224
5 9/20

Workshop Online Session 3: Evidence

5 9/24

Pre-quiz and Quiz over EV Ch 3, Online sessions 2-3  

  
6 9/27

Workshop Online Session 4: Applied Natural Selection, Witnessing Change, and CINS

EV: 73-97 Ch 4

JRST Vol. 39 (10): 952-978, 2002.
6 10/1

Pre-quiz and Quiz over EV Ch 4, OS 4 and JRST 39: 952-978, 2002  

  
7 10/4

Workshop Rooting the Tree of Life and The Accidental Toolkit

EV: 101-115  Ch 5
EV: 117-141  Ch 6
7 10/7

Start using a WIKI or your favorite technology to present your material.

  
7 10/8

Pre-quiz and Quiz over EV Ch 5-6

 
8 10/12

Workshop Extinction and Coevolution
Online Session 5: Explosions and Extinctions/Human Influence on Evolution

EV: 143-186  Ch 7
EV: 189-209  Ch 8
9 10/22

Pre-quiz and Quiz over EV Ch 7-8; OS 5

10 10/25

Workshop

Disease in the Age of Evolutionary Medicine
The Evolution of Sex
The Social Roots of Human Evolution

HHMI Online Lectures Bones, Stones, and Genes: The Origins of Modern Humans

EV: 211-227  Ch 9
EV: 229-256  Ch 10
EV: 259-291  Ch 11
10 10/29 Pre-quiz and Quiz over EV Ch 9-11    
11 11/1

Workshop
Online Session 6: Misconceptions about Evolution and SimUText Lab: Evolutionary Evidence

Start using a WIKI or your favorite technology to present your material

  
12 11/8

Workshop

Online Session 7: Creating, Sharing Instruction & Assessment Strategies

Create an assessment to evaluate student understanding of evolution.

 

 
13 11/15

Workshop

Modern Life
50,000 B.C.

Put your unit plan together

EV: 293-311 Ch 12
EV: 313-344 Ch 13
14 11/22

Workshop
Online Session 8: How Can You Deal with Controversy?
Peer review ideas about lesson planning, intergation of technology, and student assessment

15 11/29

Revise, improve, and self-assess each others' work on your team's unit for teaching about biological evolution

 

FINAL EXAM
Dec 6, 2011 

Participate Face-to-Face or Adobe Connect (formerly Macromedia Breeze). Remote students must register their final exam proctor by Nov 30.

Smith 201 on Tuesday, December 6, 2011 from 4:30-7:00 p.m.

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