Pedagogy is important

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Pedagogy is important

• Inquiry has more of an impact on student
  knowledge - understand content and how that
  content was created
• Inquiry includes evidence and predictions
• Traditional textbook and telling reinforces idea
  of science as dogmatic and as a conclusion
• Hands on activities and labs on evolution

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Pedagogy and EvolutionMichael SvecDepartment of
EducationFurman UniversityGreenville, SC 29613
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Evolution as a unifying theme

• Astronomy - origins, time, planets, Apollo. . .
• Geology - age of earth, tectonics, dating,
  fossils, changing earth, time (IMAX). . .
• Physics - radiometric dating . . .
• Ecology - survival within an environment,
  variation within population . . .
• Genetics - inheritance, variation, mutation, DNA
  . . .
• Biology - classification, anatomy, cells. . .
• Nature of Science and inquiry . . .

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NOS fundamentals woven through out the curriculum

• Questions - testable and researchable
• Use of natural world and senses
• Subject to peer review and replication
• Role of evidence in explanations
• Science self-selects and is not based on popular
  opinion - fairness
• Fact - hypothesis - theory - law

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Precision in language

• Hypothesis vs. Theory vs. Law
• Believe vs. Accept
• Random variation not random selection
• Evolution as improvement implies direction where
  there is none
• Survival of the fit (enough)
• Evolution vs. development
• Ancestor vs. relative