OESE congratulates our Junior division winners Anna Rogers (Undercroft Montessori School) – Changes in Air Quality due to the Rising Temperatures on Different Surfaces and her teacher Ashley Dignan and our Senior division winners Likhitha Pasala (Bartlesville High School) – Go Green, A better SAP for plants and her teacher Shelley Brown.
Three creationist bills were introduced for the 2024 session. HB 3122 by Williams and the identical HB 3543 by Conley in the House. Both are named “Oklahoma Freedom of Religious Expression Act”. Both bills explicitly allow the teaching of intelligent design in public school science classes. In the Senate, SB 1871 by Bullard has a […]
1. Problems with math textbooks in Oklahoma 2. Anti-science education science standards and textbook problems in other states 3. The last 12 months were the hottest on record 4. Lice Genes Offer Clues to Ancient Human History 5. 2023 National Climate Assessment paints grim picture while offering hope 6. Bonobos, like humans, cooperate with unrelated members of other groups 7. Improved […]
1. More PRAGERU in Oklahoma information and Oklahoma textbook problems 2. Pro-/anti- science education legislation in other states 3. Tired of aggressively amorous males? These female frogs play dead 4. OU project aims for more efficient, sustainable energy future 5. Chimpanzees Go Through Menopause, Too 6. Asteroid dust caused 15-year winter that killed dinosaurs 7. October videos MORE PRAGERU IN […]
1. PragerU’s climate-change-denying videos come to Oklahoma 2. Pro-science education legislation in other states 3. This summer broke the world record for the highest temperature officially recorded 4. University of Oklahoma, Los Alamos National Laboratory awarded grant to study extreme weather triggers 5. Nature’s great survivors: Flowering plants survived the mass extinction that killed the dinosaurs 6. Rare Oklahoma Crayfish […]
1. July 2023 was likely the hottest month in 120,000 years 2. Bizarre ancient sea creature brings evolution mystery to the surface 3. Climate change puts Greenland’s ice sheet at risk 4. Caught in the act: Mammal found with teeth sunk in a much larger dinosaur 5. World’s oceans set new surface temperature record 6. OSU Integrative biology faculty publishes multidisciplinary […]
1. Pro-/anti- science education legislation in other states 2. The Primate Genome Project unlocks hidden secrets of primate evolution 3. Fungi Stores a Third of Carbon From Fossil Fuel Emissions 4. Ocean temperatures are off the charts, and El Niño is only partly to blame 5. OSU researchers discover unprecedented diversity of anaerobic fungi in herbivores 6. Climate Deniers Are […]
1. Pro-/anti- science education legislation in other states 2. Anti-science education legislation in other countries 3. Archaea in a warming climate become less diverse, more predictable 4. The new human pangenome could help unveil the biology of everyone 5. Global climate change amplifies risk of flash droughts and threatens croplands 6. Bizarre Sea Creatures Illuminate the Dawn of the […]
1. Pro-/anti- science education legislation in other states 2. Pro-/anti- science education legislation at the national level 3. Invasive yellow crazy ants create male ‘chimeras’ to reproduce 4. Scientists advocate for integration of biogeography and behavioral ecology to rapidly respond to biodiversity loss 5. ‘Flash droughts’ are growing increasingly common 6. Why It’s Time for a Worldwide Lights-Out Program […]
OESE Kudos OESE congratulates Rachel Welch, the PAEMST State Finalist for the 2022 Elementary (Grades K-6) cycle. Welch has spent 14 years in education and is currently the kindergarten-second grade STEM teacher for Glenpool Public Schools. She was Glenpool’s 2018 district Teacher of the Year and has received many awards for teaching and innovation and […]