Meeting Abstract

73.1  Thursday, Jan. 6  Evolution Education Resources from The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center WEINTRAUB, J.P.; National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) jory@nescent.org

Teaching evolution has myriad challenges, not the least of which is sorting through all of the existing modules, podcasts, videos, links and other resources available, to distinguish between the good, the bad and the ugly. This session will describe useful evolution education resources that have been generated or compiled by the Education & Outreach group within NESCent (The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center – an NSF-funded evolution research collaboration of Duke University, UNC Chapel Hill and NC State University). In addition, this session will describe the findings of several NESCent-sponsored working groups focusing on evolution education and their implications for improving the process at the undergraduate level.