T20 Teaching Paleontology in the Twenty-First Century: Resources for Teaching Paleontology at the Undergraduate Level

Sunday, 31 October 2010
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room 603

Presentations

• 8:00 AM
  USING ACTIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE DEEP LEARNING IN THE UNDERGRADUATE PALEONTOLOGY CLASSROOM
  Margaret M. Yacobucci, Bowling Green State Univ, Bowling Green, OH
  177563 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:15 AM
  FROM MEMORIZATION TO INSPIRATION: HANDS-ON APPROACHES TO TEACHING PALEONTOLOGY
  Donald Prothero, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
  177960 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:30 AM
  REEFS AS THE CENTRALIZING THEME IN AN UNDERGRADUATE PALEONTOLOGY COURSE
  Constance M. Soja, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
  178052 (Technical Sessions)
• 8:45 AM
  PALEONTOLOGY FOR PRE-SERVICE EDUCATION MAJORS AND IN-SERVICE K-12 EDUCATORS
  Michael Gibson, Univ. of Tennessee - Martin, Martin, TN
  181276 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:00 AM
  IMPROVING STUDENT READING AND INTERPRETATION OF PALEONTOLOGIC GRAPH DATA WITH FossilPlot: A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT
  Leif Tapanila, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID and Daniel P. Ames, Idaho State University, Idaho Falls, ID and Carrie Thomason, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID and Dotty Sammons, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID and Jack Agamba, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID and Joseph Sheffield, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID
  179318 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:15 AM
  AGE DETERMINATION FOR DEEP-SEA CORES: INQUIRY-BASED LEARNING WITH AUTHENTIC SCIENTIFIC OCEAN DRILLING DATA
  R. Mark Leckie, Univ of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA and Kristen St. John, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA and Megan H. Jones, North Hennepin Community College, Brooklyn Park, MN and Kate S. Pound, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN and Lawrence Krissek, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
  182437 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:30 AM
  INTRODUCING EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES IN INTRODUCTORY PALEONTOLOGY: DIVERSITY INDICES, SIMILARITY COEFFICIENTS, AND CLUSTER ANALYSIS
  Robert Gastaldo, Colby College, Waterville, ME
  181300 (Technical Sessions)
• 9:45 AM
  STUDENT ANALYSIS OF QUATERNARY CLIMATE CHANGE AND PALEOECOLOGY ON THE NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL PLAIN
  Martin B. Farley, University of North Carolina--Pembroke, Pembroke, NC
  178119 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:15 AM
  STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING EVOLUTION IN AN INTRODUCTORY PALEONTOLOGY COURSE FOR NON-SCIENCE MAJORS
  Patricia Kelley, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC
  175862 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:30 AM
  USING DINOSAURS TO DEMONSTRATE THE TESTABILITY OF EVOLUTIONARY HYPOTHESES
  Keith B. Miller, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
  176634 (Technical Sessions)
• 10:45 AM
  ENGAGING UNDERGRADUATES IN INFORMAL GEOSCIENCE EXPERIENCES
  Bruce J. MacFadden, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
  176602 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:00 AM
  THE MUSEUM GALLERY AS ANATOMY CLASSROOM: TEACHING GEOLOGY STUDENTS COMPARATIVE OSTEOLOGY WITHOUT INCITING MASS PANIC
  Allison Tumarkin-Deratzian, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
  179988 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:15 AM
  WILL IT ROT? DEVELOPING UNDERGRADUATE SCIENCE PROCESS SKILLS IN THE CLASSROOM
  Karen A. Koy, Missouri Western State University, Saint Joseph, MO
  180802 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:30 AM
  EDUCATING FLEDGLING PALEONTOLOGISTS IN THE WEST: THE UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING
  Brent H. Breithaupt, Bureau of Land Management, Cheyenne, WY and Neffra A. Matthews, USDOI-Bureau of Land Managment, Denver, CO
  182370 (Technical Sessions)
• 11:45 AM
  ENGAGING PALEONTOLOGY UNDERGRADUATES IN COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH EXPERIENCES ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
  Michael Savarese, Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers, FL
  181434 (Technical Sessions)