Evidence for Evolution

In the back of my mind, I'm always pondering how we can teach evolution in such a way that deeply religious students are engaged, but not threatened. I don't know if it's possible, but I know that it's important that we struggle with the issue, especially due to my experiences of growing up in Christian fundamentalism. I experienced a lot of conflict there, as did many of my friends.

I'm trying to find time to build on previous research I've done on this topic with David Jackson of UGA, and I'm just now trying to get a handle on the evidence for evolution. Bob Angus of UAB got my started with a great set of web-sites he had collected, and one of them might be really interesting to many of you. It's resources for evolution from the National Academies, and almost all of the resources are open-books. You can read them for free! You can find the site at the following URL:

http://nationalacademies.org/evolution/

DeMystifying Link

Just posted the link to DeMystifying Inquiry to the left. Here's the URL, just in case: http://homepage.mac.com/lmeadows/demystifying.pdf

Practice

My first blog post. I've been looking forward to this for a while, savoring the day when I would be able to get my thoughts out there in such a way that others could react and we could start a conversation. I'm first going to try developing this kind of community with CHEERS. We'll see how that works. Then, I want to start gathering my science ed friends from around the country in a conversation about high school inquiry. What will be really interesting is if my CHEERS friends start reading my science ed post and vice-versa.