Recent research on teaching and learning evolution in high school classrooms
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• What we'll do
Well it is not exactly Darwin Day, but we have a suitable topic for Darwin's birth month and educating youth about evolution.
We are very happy to have Briana Pobiner as our educational guide on this topic.
Briana Pobiner is a paleoanthropologist whose research centers on the evolution of human diet (with a focus on meat-eating), but has included topics as diverse as cannibalism in the Cook Islands and chimpanzee carnivory.
Since joining the Smithsonian in 2005 to help put together the Hall of Human Origins and now leads the Human Origins Program’s education and outreach efforts.
In addition she continues to be active in her field, laboratory, and experimental research programs. Briana is also an Associate Research Professor of Anthropology at the George Washington University.
• What to bring
Just an open mind.
• Important to know