Webinar: Using Issues to Illustrate Real World Biology

Can issue-based activities make science come alive for students? How do issues reflect our changing world? Do issues illustrate how the process of science works? In the first part of the web seminar, participants will explore how to use the peer-reviewed, bilingual web site (English and Spanish), ActionBioscience.org, to incorporate issues into their teaching and extend the site's resources to activities that examine the process of science. The site's articles are organized into major subject themes that are of pressing scientific and societal impact. Its current emphases are biodiversity, the environment, evolution, biotechnology, and genomics; a "new frontiers" section encompasses a variety of other topics at science's growing points, and an education section addresses advances in teaching.

In part two, discussion will focus on how to teach with issues and cases in ways that foster critical thinking and make connections to students' daily lives. Join Oksana Hlodan, Editor-in-chief of ActionBioscience.org, an education resource of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, who along with a guest college teacher, will guide this reflection on teaching and learning with issues. Worksheets and resource lists will be provided. This webinar is designed for high school biology teachers and educators of college introductory bioscience courses.

For more information and to register visit: http://www.aibs.org/events/webinar/using-issues-to-illustrate-real-world-biology.html