ANTI-SCIENCE EDUCATION LEGISLATION IN OKLAHOMA No bills directly attacking science education were introduced in this year’s Oklahoma legislative session. We will be closely following SB 1470 by Standridge, the Students’ Religious Belief Protection Act. The bill bans public schools from employing or contracting with “a person that promotes positions in the classroom or at any function of […]
1. Pro-science education legislation in other states 2. Water beetles can live on after being eaten and excreted by a frog 3. U.S. Teachers Evolving on Science of Evolution 4. Highest temperature on Earth’ as Death Valley hits 130F. 5. Fabulous fossil preserves eyes of 429-million-year-old trilobite 6. July 2020: Another scorching month in a scorching year 7. August videos PRO-SCIENCE […]
1. Proscience education legislation in other states 2. Bizarre caecilians may be the only amphibians with venomous bites 3. Green Power Beats Fossil Fuels for First Time in Europe 4. How Ultra-Black Fish Disappear in the Deepest Seas 5. June 2020: third-hottest June on record 6. An immune system quirk may help anglerfish fuse with mates during sex 7. NABT reaffirms the […]
1. Pro-science education legislation in other states 2. OU-led study focuses on evolutionary determinism and convergence in marine fishes 3. Teaching climate crisis in classrooms critical for children, top educators say 4. How Dinosaurs Thrived in the Snow 5. Extreme flows in US streams are rising 6. Fruit Flies Are Essential to Science. So Are the Workers Who Keep […]
1. Anti-science/pro-science education legislation in other states 2. A new NCSE/Penn State survey finds impressive gains in evolution education 3. These tube-shaped creatures may be the earliest known parasites 4. Oklahoma Professor Begins Term as 2020-2021 President of the National Science Teaching Association 5. A Siberian town hit 100 degrees, setting a new record for the Arctic Circle […]
1. Anti-science education legislation in Oklahoma 2. Longer overlap for modern humans and Neanderthals 3. Daily global CO2 emissions dropped dramatically as COVID-19 kept people home 4. Bumblebees’ ‘clever trick’ fools plants into flowering 5. A deep dive into climate change education 6. Ancient Mass Extinction Tied To Ozone Loss, Warming Climate 7. New dragonfly subspecies named after Oklahoma biologist 8. U.S. renewable […]
1. Anti-science/pro-science education legislation is other states 2. What It’s Like to Teach Sixth-Grade Science Over Zoom 3. Earth’s insect population changes 4. 2019 was Europe’s warmest year ever recorded 5. The first frog fossil from Antarctica has been found 6. March 2020 continues hot start to the year 7. “An Illustrated Guide” to help your students understand biology 8. April videos […]
1. Pro-science education legislation in other states 2. University of Oklahoma to host climate education virtual teach-in 3. War on Science video from CBSN Originals 4. Climate and evolution activities at-home learning 5. Greenland’s melting ice raised global sea level by 2.2mm in two months 6. Oklahoma Education to Include Biological Evolution 7. Fossil worm shows us our evolutionary beginnings 8. March […]
1. Science education legislation in Oklahoma 2. Anti-science/pro-science education legislation in other states and countries 3. Darwin Day resolutions 4. Antarctica breaks it highest record temperature 5. How thin, delicate butterfly wings keep from overheating 6. January was warmest on record for the globe 7. New dinosaur discovered in China shows dinosaurs grew up differently from birds 8. #WhyTeachEvolution campaign […]