In this workshop, Presidential Award for Science winner Erik Mollenhauer will guide your journey through the enduring myth and science of ancient sites around the world in a way that will force you to rethink the origins of civilization and your connection to the past. Explore a variety of instructional strategies for bringing these stories to life in the modern classroom. Evolution and extinction are a normal part of life on Earth. But it appears we are now in the midst of a mass extinction episode similar to major episodes of the geologic past. This time, however, WE are the Death Star.
Scientists don t have all the answers, but they do have a lot of good questions.
At it s best, science is an inquiry process, where the art of teaching science is the art of facilitating discovery . It is a process rooted in asking interesting questions about the world around us, accompanied by observation, exploration, information search, experimentation and prediction. How to preserve and manage cultural and biological diversity will be one of the biggest challenges of the new millennium. Scientists warn that we are in the midst of another mass extinction of species. Dramatic growth in human population and increased competition for scarce resources is a recipe for conflict around the world.