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Facing Challenges in the Classroom: Scott Hatfield
We asked applicants for the NCSE Grand Canyon Teacher Scholarship to explain, in 500 words, how they’ve addressed challenges to the teaching of evolution, climate change, and related issues. Here is part of scholarship winner Scott Hatfield’s explanation of his strategies for overcoming…
From the Canyon to the Classroom: Scott Hatfield
We asked applicants for the NCSE Grand Canyon Teacher Scholarship to explain, in 500 words, what lessons or knowledge they expected to gain from rafting the Grand Canyon, to enrich their students’, colleagues’, and neighbors’ understanding of evolution, deep time, climate change, and the…
Congratulations to our Grand Canyon Teacher Scholarship Winners
This year, for the first time, NCSE will be providing all-expenses-paid seats on our annual Grand Canyon raft trip to two teachers. We had 140 applications, which my colleagues and I carefully sorted and sifted through before we selected Scott Hatfield and Alyson Miller as the winners. They…
Misconception Monday: Let’s Start at the Beginning, Part 2
Last week I made a case that origins-of-life research doesn’t usually fall under the evolution umbrella. I offered my analogy that the first spark of life was a bit like a baton hand-off from chemical evolution to biological evolution. Today, I’ll get into some aspects of the topic that tend to…
Congratulations to the NCSE Grand Canyon Teacher Scholarship winners!
  NCSE is pleased to announce the winners of the first teacher scholarships on our annual Grand Canyon raft trip: Alyson Miller of Nashua High School North, Nashua, New Hampshire, and Scott Hatfield of Bullard High School, Fresno, California. They will receive an all-expenses-paid eight-day…
Haeckeling Darwin with a Full Nelson
Do I tire of skimming through creationist books from the Scopes era? I do not. And to prove it, I’ve been perusing “After Its Kind”: The First and Last Word on Evolution (1927), by Byron C. Nelson. According to his grandson Paul Nelson, who edited a reprint volume of his writings in a…
Combating Denial Through Play
Could we combat science denial by getting scientists to play Rock Band with non-scientists? Well, that might just be crazy enough to work. A little background: I commute each day by bicycle and train, and there’s not quite enough time on the train to get any work done. For a while I listened to…
AFT adds its voice for climate change education
The American Federation of Teachers adopted a resolution in 2014 affirming the role of science in climate change courses. Observing that "the political will to see a specific outcome is not a proper justification to overthrow models resulting from the scientific process" and that "powerful…
Polling evolution in Canada
Science Culture: Where Canada Stands, a new report (PDF) from the Council of Canadian Academies, includes data on Canadian public opinion about evolution and related topics. Presented with "Human beings as we know them today developed from earlier species of animals," 74% of…

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