Evolution: Education and Outreach. [Journal]
FREE PDFs of any or all of 103 articles, many of them great.
Go to one of these pages:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/120878/
OR here:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/120878/?sortorder=asc&v=expanded
Notice the Article Category links on the right side. These
allow you select Curricula and Essays on Teaching Evolution,
Lesson plans, Overcoming Obstacles to Evolution Education,
etc.
Note that that the most recent issue is on eye evolution.
Interesting to students and many key topics including how
do complex organs evolve, convergence and complex evolutionary
processes, imperfections as clear evidence of evolution, molecular
mechanisms.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/m3k441k67q3n/?p=c41bed9f17014e5c80025c33d9a13846&pi=0
Quote: Targeting K-16 students, teachers and scientists alike,
the journal presents articles to aid members of these communities
in the teaching of evolutionary theory. It connects teachers
with scientists by adapting cutting-edge, peer-reviewed articles
for classroom use on varied instructional levels. The journal
features multi-authored papers written by teachers and scientists
and offers teaching tools such as unit and lesson plans and classroom
activities, as well as additional online content such as podcasts
and powerpoint presentations.
http://www.springer.com/life+sci/journal/12052?detailsPage=description
Sample abstract in the Eye Evolution volume (complete
article available in PDF):
Go to http://www.springerlink.com/content/120878/
Click on Volume 1, Number 4 (Special Issue: The Evolution of
Eyes); Select:
Opening the "Black Box": The Genetic and Biochemical
Basis of Eye Evolution
Todd H. Oakley and M. Sabrina Pankey
(1) Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California,
Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Received: 23 July 2008 Accepted: 10 September 2008 Published
online: 23 October 2008
Abstract Eyes provide a rich narrative for understanding evolution,
having attracted the attention of preeminent scientists and communicators
alike. Until recently, this narrative has focused primarily on
the evolution of eye structure and far less on biochemistry or
genetics. Although eye biochemistry was once likened to an unknown
"black box;" the flood of discoveries in biochemistry
is now allowing an increasingly detailed understanding of the
processes involved in vision. As a result, evolutionary comparative
("tree-thinking") analyses that use these data currently
allow a new and still unfolding narrative, both richer in detail
and more comprehensive in scope. Rather than toppling evolutionary
theory by finding irreducibly complex molecular machines, eye
evolution provides detailed accounts of how natural processes
tinker with existing genetic components, duplicating and recombining
them, to yield complex, intricate, and highly functional eyes.
Understanding the new biochemical narrative is critical for
researchers and teachers alike, in order to answer anti-evolutionist
claims, and to provide an up-to-date account of the state of
knowledge on the subject of eye evolution.
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