2008 K-12 Educator Forum (High School)
Course Overview
ECOL/GEOS/GC 596s is structured as a 2-unit graduate course with discussion, lecture and activities on the teaching of life sciences in a high school classroom. The course is focused around an evening speaker series offered through the College of Science.
Teacher-participants meet once a week for three hours in the evening. In the first hour the class participates in an activity for teaching science in a high school science classroom or a presentation on a K-12 outreach opportunity at the UA. In the second hour the class attends the College of Science The Edges of Life Lecture. The third hour consists of discussion of the lecture and its application to the high school classroom.
This course is structured for science teachers at the 6-12 grade level, but K-12 teachers at all levels are invited to participate. Pre-service teachers who are not yet certified may also take the course and earn undergraduate credit. Teachers earn two units of graduate credit.
For More Information
- Contact Richard Thompson
- rmthomps@u.arizona.edu
- 520-404-14931
To Register
- Contact Continuing Education and Academic Outreach
- 520-621-7724
- Enrollment is limited.
Tuition and Fees
100% tuition and fees (two units) are paid by the College of Science through funding provided by Research Corporation and The Gear Up Project.
Location and Time
Classes meet in the Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) Building, Room 114. Classes run from 6:00-9:00 pm each Wednesday evening from January 16 to March 12. Parking is available in the Tyndall Avenue Garage.
View map to the FCS building
View map to Tyndall Avenue Garage
Educator Series
- Wednesday, January 16
- Three-hour class
- Wednesday, January 23
- Life's Defining Edge: The Origins of Life
- Roy Parker, Regents' Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Wednesday, January 30
- Life's Extreme Edge: The Limits of Organic Life on Earth and on Other Planets
- Jonathan Lunine, Professor, Planetary Sciences and Physics
- Wednesday, February 6
- Life's Final Edge? The Origin and Extinction of Species in a Human-Dominated Earth
- Michael Rosenzweig, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Wednesday, February 13
- Life's Cognitive Edge: The Role of the Mind and What it Means to be Human
- Anna Dornhaus, Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Wednesday, February 20
- Life’s Human Edge: Changing Perspectives on the End of Life
- Michael Gill, Associate Professor, Philosophy
- Wednesday, Febuary 27
- Three-hour class
- Wednesday, March 5
- Life's Technological Edge: The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
- Ray Kurzweil, via Teleportec Teleporter
- Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.
- Wednesday, March 12
- Three-hour class
