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So the Alabama Science Teachers Association is meeting here in Tuscaloosa this year. Stop me if I have already told you about this. I decided to do a workshop about fossil footprints. Specifically, about trackways. Years ago I found this really cute activity where you step in paint, walk on paper, and then measure things, calculate other things, and, hopefully, realize that you can learn a lot from fossil footprints. I actually presented this to the same group years ago, but there is so much turnover among teachers (because they are treated like crap) that for most of them this would be a new experience. I recently discovered that the ASTA doesn't accept every single workshop proposal that is submitted, although I still think it's pretty close. But if they don't accept this one, it will be because the owner of the facility doesn't want people walking in paint on their floors. I have a plan for that, but I think if they say no they're going to say no before they hear about my plan. I guess I need to email the workshop organizer and make my pitch before it is too late! It involves using a large tarp and trusting teachers to be tidy. I can do that, can't I? Stay tuned.

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teachers sent
to blah blah blah class
no one learns a thing

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Spent the day at the Alabama Science Teachers Assoc. convention. I spoke about 339 myo fossils to about 15 teachers. Saw the first half of a two-hr presentation on teaching evol. Little of it was new to me. Caught up w some old friends and made new ones. Had the wit to bring my lunch and avoid the 1-star cafeteria. Drove both ways in pouring rain.

are these teachers
old enough to drive?
crowded aisles

Darwin Day in Birmingham

And don't forget, Southeastern Evolutionary Perspective Society meeting in Tuscaloosa Thursday through Saturday. Thursday is for teachers and it's free. Friday and Saturday is for professionals; registration is $110 and includes keynote lecture and tender as well as two days of conference talks:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/SEEvoPerspectives/

Kids Evolutionary Perspectives Society meeting this Thursday

Join us at the Alabama Museum of Natural History next Thursday, February 9 for a series of workshops about teaching evolution. The Kids Evolutionary Perspectives Society will host 4 workshops that are free & open to the public as a pre-conference activity before the Southeastern Evolutionary Perspectives Society 2^nd annual meetings on Feb. 10-11. Workshops will be held in the Museum Grand Gallery.

10-11AM - Anthropology is Elemental: A Sharable Model for Primary School Cross-Cultural Evolution Education (UA Anthropology)

12:50-1:50 - Evolution! Learning Science Through Art (Virginia Museum of Science)

1:55-2:55 - Declawing the Dinosaur in Your Classroom: Reducing Teacher Anxiety about Evolution (Texas Tech College of Ed)

3:10-4:10 – “No More Monkeying Around!”: Meaningful “Evolution Stories” for Middle and High School Students (and Their Teachers) (St. Mark’s School of Texas)