This two-day short course, held March 11-12, 2000, gave a Bay Area audience of about 200 people (over 90% of them being K-16 teachers) a comprehensive look at the evolution of life on Earth.
 Click on any presentation title for a summary of that presentation. From the summaries, you can find links to many outlines, graphics and other resources that were used in (or that augment material presented at) the short course.
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PRESENTATIONS
SATURDAY, MARCH 11 presentations and speakers
100 Genetics and Plant Biology Building, UC Berkeley
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- Can Life Be Synthesized in the Laboratory? or, Igor, Please Pass the RNA!
DAVID W. DEAMER, UC Santa Cruz
The Hunt for Our Most Ancient Ancestors in
Stinky Berkeley Mud
SCOTT DAWSON, UC Berkeley
The First Animals
JERE H. LIPPS, UC Berkeley
Extinctions: Forest fires Among the Trees of Life
RICHARD COWEN, UC Davis
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- Plants and Their Predators Through Time
BRUCE H. TIFFNEY, UC Santa Barbara
Organizing Organisms: Making Sense of
Evolution Using Systematics
SANDRA CARLSON, UC Davis
- Special presentations
- Human Evolution: A view from Africa
TIM WHITE, UC Berkeley
Creating a Curriculum in Evolution
KEVIN PADIAN, UCMP
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Panel discussion
Reception at the T. rex
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SUNDAY, MARCH 12 presentations and speakers
2040 Valley Life Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
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Conversations about evolution – a discussion with scientists NAN CRYSTAL ARENS, DAVID R. LINDBERG and BRUCE H. TIFFNEY
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Hands-on activities for teaching evolution in the classroom (grades 5-12)
- Keynote address
- Teaching Conceptions Instead of Misconceptions
KEVIN PADIAN, UCMP
More hands-on activities for teaching evolution in the classroom (grades 5-12)
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