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Many teachers will likely take advantage of the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin to bring Darwin into the classroom in February, 2009. Charles Darwin joins Abraham Lincoln with a February 12th birthday, and it has caught attention nationally this year as Darwin would have been 200 years old.
So what's going on educationally for Darwin Day?
•The Genome Institute at the NIH has several programs in support of Darwin Day. One at the NIH with a full slate of speakers, and another bringing students and teachers to the Smithsonian Institution for a day.
• Great ideas and support materials are at the Darwin Day website. Including song lyrics about Darwin and song samples and interviews.
Wikipedia's entry is full of facts. Google has an amazing Darwin timeline that's fuller than even the Wiki entries.
Got more ideas and links? Sign in and add them to the CoGE Resource Library to share with everyone!
What is the Community of Genetics Educators?
The "Community of Genetic Educators" website is a place for genetic educators to meet, collaborate, share and learn. Resources here will benefit K-12, collegiate, formal and informal biology and genetics educators. Once you register, you will be able to search and find helpful resources submitted to CoGE by other educators, and by science and education professionals at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
CoGE members are invited to help update the NIH Talking Glossary of Genetics this Summer. This is a major project that will expand the popular Talking Glossary to over 200 terms, add animations, and include a "Test Your Genetic Knowledge" function for K-12 students and the general public.
Get involved, add to your resume. Credit given to all who particpate. We need teachers!
Click here to learn more -- reviewers get free CD ROM copies of the Glossary too.
Interested in being a reviewer? Click here for more information.
Not ready to join? No problem, but be sure to check out some examples of CoGE learning tools educators tell us are helpful.
1: Talking Glossary of Genetics English /Spanish 2: Genetics Timeline: 1859-2006 3: CoGE Illustration Library: Nucleus (Online image / PDF )
Our current project on CoGE: Review and evaluate the new Talking Glossary of Genetics now being created at the NIH.
Here's a nice way to spice up your Bio classes:
Invest a few hours in reviewing part of the Talking Glossary over CoGE. Easy and rewarding. Review teams will look at terms, art, 3D animations, & evaluate spoken defintions. Come join us.
Twenty New 3D movies of common cell organelles.
Let your students see them in context, in 3D, and as they move through the cell wall and find and focus on cellular wonders.
In early 2009 NHGRI will release a series of 30 second long animations that model over 20 common biology terms in 3D.
DNA, nucleus, both ERs, chromosomes, mitochondria. the double helix...
Want to be part of the 3D review via CoGE? Contact
Jeff Witherly at jlw@mail.nih.gov
Part of the new version of the Talking Glossary of Genetics is a randomly chosen set of 10 questions based on the Glossary's 200 terms.
Student and public versions.Students can print a report of their results and bring it to class for credit!
This is an online group project that you can work on from home. Every teacher/ class will be credited in the Talking Glossary.
To take part, send an email : Jeff Witherly at jlw@mail.nih.gov
Coming in early 2009.