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#NSTA23 – Selection Pressures and Urban Spaces: A Storyline Approach in OpenSciEd Biology
October 26 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT
This unit helps students develop an understanding of the elements of evolution by natural selection and learn to apply that understanding to protect populations endangered by urbanization. Students learn through modeling, reading, and discussing adaptations of published scientific studies of nonhuman populations impacted by urbanization. They develop criteria for designing urban systems that protect populations from the harmful effects of fragmentation in urban systems and evaluate proposals for development in a real US city.
TAKEAWAYS:
Leave motivated to use OpenSciEd’s storyline to teach the elements of evolution by natural selection using real-world examples. Students will learn how their understanding of biological concepts can be used to design more sustainable systems that benefit the human and more-than human world.
SPEAKERS:
Sara Krauskopf (Educational Consultant), Wayne Wright (NSTA: Arlington, VA), Kate Henson (University of Colorado Boulder: Boulder, CO)
LOCATION
Kansas City Marriott Downtown – Basie Ballroom A