Following up on my blog post from last night, and thanks to Richard Hulbert and Kristen McKenzie for pulling the relevant specimens from our collections, I am now excited and ready for this afternoon's session on fossil horse evolution with the teachers from UF's CPET (Center for Precollegiate Education and Training).
After a brief orientation, the 10 teachers will break into 2 groups to develop a lesson plan about evolution using the fossil horse study set (photo). I will explain the pitfalls of developing a straight-line (orthogenetic) pattern of horse evolution so they don't go down that path!
Fossil horse study set.
Awesome! Will each of the teachers be able to use this set in their own classroom? How might other teachers put the lesson plans into practice? I guess here is where 3-D printing really comes in handy.
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