[Scico-list] FW: NIH Middle School Teaching Resource - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; National Center for Science Education

Mon May 7 07:33:38 MDT 2007

1.	FW: NIH Middle School Teaching Resource - U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services; 
2.	National Center for Science Education

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From: owner-csen-all at lists.colorado.edu
[mailto:owner-csen-all at lists.colorado.edu] On Behalf Of Nancy Kellogg
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 7:17 PM
To: CSEN-all; Wells, Brian
Subject: Fw: NIH Middle School Teaching Resource - U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services

Here is a great set of resources.

Nancy

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From: NIH Science Education <mailto:NIH_Science_Education at dk10.net>  

To: nancy.kellogg at comcast.net 

Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 2:43 PM

Subject: NIH Middle School Teaching Resource - U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services

The National Institutes of Health (NIH)--the federal focal point for
health research--supplies FREE classroom resources to teachers like you.
If you can't view the e-mail, don't miss out! Click on this URL or paste
it directly into your browser to go to our middle school curriculum
supplements page:  http://science.education.nih.gov/N5A

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National Institutes of Health, DHHS
Office of Science Education, OD
6100 Executive Blvd, Suite 3E01
Bethesda, MD 20892-7520
supplements at science.education.nih.gov
http://science.education.nih.gov/n2a

National Center for Science Education

http://www.ncseweb.org <http://www.ncseweb.org/> 

Not in Our Classrooms:  Why Intelligent Design Is Wrong for Our Schools
http://www.ncseweb.org/nioc

Dear Friends of NCSE,

Kevin Padian's testimony in Kitzmiller v. Dover is now available
on-line, complete with slides.  And Flock of Dodos is coming to
Showtime.

MEET PADIAN'S CRITTERS

NCSE is pleased to announce that, for the first time, a transcript of
Kevin Padian's expert witness testimony in the trial in Kitzmiller v.
Dover (400 F.Supp.2d 707 [M.D. Pa. 2005]) is available on-line --
complete with the slides that he displayed in the courtroom.  Padian
testified in the case on behalf of the plaintiffs, eleven local parents
who were challenging the Dover Area School Board's "intelligent design"
policy; Judge John E. Jones III found in their favor, ruling that
teaching "intelligent design" in the public schools is unconstitutional.
Padian is Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the
University of California, Berkeley, Curator of Paleontology at the
University of California Museum of Paleontology, and president of NCSE's
board of directors.

Padian's testimony was widely regarded as among the highlights of the
trial.  For example, the columnist Mike Argento summarized Padian's
discussion of Of Pandas and People: "It's too bad that just about
everything the book says is wrong. ... The book, in so many words, is
misleading, incorrect, incomplete, illogical and distorts the facts, he
said." (York Daily Record, October 15, 2005).  And in his account of the
trial, Monkey Girl (Ecco 2007), Edward Humes wrote, "Kevin Padian,
Berkeley paleontologist and curator of his university's Museum of
Paleontology, entertainingly brought the bone hunter's perspective to
the courtroom, the sort of character on whom the fossil-hunting hero of
the film Jurassic Park was based.  Padian happily showed slides of his
'critters,' as he tended to call the ancient fossils and bones he used
as a window on the past. ...

Padian, with evident fierce joy, debunked the often repeated claim that
the absence of 'transitional fossils' was a problem for evolution and an
argument for creation or intelligent design."

Judge Jones, for his part, was also impressed with Padian's testimony,
writing in his decision, "A series of arguments against evolutionary
theory found in Pandas involve paleontology, which studies the life of
the past and the fossil record.  Plaintiffs' expert Professor Padian was
the only testifying expert witness with any expertise in paleontology.
His testimony therefore remains unrebutted.  Dr. Padian's demonstrative
slides, prepared on the basis of peer-reviewing scientific literature,
illustrate how Pandas systematically distorts and misrepresents
established, important evolutionary principles."  He also noted that
"Padian bluntly and effectively stated that in confusing students about
science generally and evolution in particular, the disclaimer makes
students 'stupid.'"

For the transcript of Padian's testimony, visit:

http://www2.ncseweb.org/kvd/exhibits/Padian/Padian_transcript.html

For NCSE's resources about Of Pandas and People, visit:

http://www.ncseweb.org/article.asp?category=21

To buy Monkey Girl from Amazon.com (and benefit NCSE), visit:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0060885483/nationalcenter02/

And for the decision in Kitzmiller v. Dover (PDF), visit:

http://www.pamd.uscourts.gov/kitzmiller/kitzmiller_342.pdf

FLOCK OF DODOS TO AIR ON SHOWTIME

Randy Olson's Flock of Dodos, the hilarious documentary that examines
both sides of the controversy over the teaching of "intelligent design"
in public schools, is scheduled to be aired on Showtime's cable channels
on five dates in May.  The film's website describes Flock of Dodos as:

***

the first feature documentary (84 mins.) to present both sides of the
Intelligent Design/Evolution clash that appeared on the covers of Time
and Newsweek in 2005.  Filmmaker and former Evolutionary Ecologist Dr.
Randy Olson tries to make sense of the issue by visiting his home state
of Kansas.  At first it seems the problem lies with intelligent design
-- a movement labeled recently as "breathtaking inanity" by a federal
judge -- but when a group of evolutionists convene for a night of poker
and discussion they end up sounding themselves like ... a flock of
dodos.

***

New Scientist praised Flock of Dodos as "a film that will appeal to the
average person on either side ... without condescension, poking
lighthearted fun at everyone."  It airs at 8:30 p.m. on May 17 on
Showtime, at 3:15 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. on May 19 on Showtime Showcase; at
1:00 p.m. on May 20 on Showtime; and at 8:00 p.m. on May 21 on Showtime
Too.

For Showtime's schedule, visit:

http://www.sho.com/site/schedules/product_page.do?episodeid=129643&serie
sid=0

For the Flock of Dodos website, visit:

http://www.flockofdodos.com/

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Thanks for reading!  And as always, be sure to consult NCSE's web site:

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where you can always find the latest news on evolution education and
threats to it.

Sincerely,

Glenn Branch

Deputy Director

National Center for Science Education, Inc.

420 40th Street, Suite 2

Oakland, CA 94609-2509

510-601-7203 x305

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800-290-6006

branch at ncseweb.org

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