What a deal. The American Association of Physical Anthropologists is
meeting in Minneapolis next weekend, and they are offering a free, open workshop for teachers on "Fossils, Bones, and Primates: Enriching High School Teaching." I hope our local educators can find time to take it!
The workshop runs from 8:15 to noon on April 16 in the Rochester room
at the Hilton Minneapolis, 1001 Marquette Avenue in Minneapolis.Featured will be Andrew J. Petto (the editor of Reports of the NCSE
and a member of NCSE's board of directors) speaking on "Primate Clues
to Human Behavior"; Michael Alan Park speaking on "Using the Fossil
Record in Teaching Human Evolution"; Pamela Ashmore and Barbara
O'Connell speaking on "Human Skin Color Variation and Race"; K.
Lindsay Eaves-Johnson and Nancy Tatarek speaking on "Who are you?
Strategies for Presenting Forensic Anthropology and Human Variation in
the Classroom"; and a question-and-answer session led by Briana
Pobiner.Admission to the workshop is free. Registration is recommended; to
register, please get in touch with Martin K. Nickels at
mnickels@ilstu.edu or (309) 661-1909.