tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post3101665489953497728..comments2024-02-29T03:57:00.088-05:00Comments on The Mermaid's Tale: Let's get Genetic Drift in K-12 evolution education standardsAnne Buchananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09212151396672651221noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-15093471991013016192021-07-15T10:58:33.327-04:002021-07-15T10:58:33.327-04:00Cool, the study of genetic drift and making extrap...Cool, the study of genetic drift and making extrapolations from it in the case of comparing humans and chimps was the primary factor for me to accept the theory of evolution. For example, Mark Stoneking was very patient with me when he took me on for a 1 credit independent study course while I studied the genetic difference between humans and chimps and originally thought that there was no way that evolution could explain the genetic difference.<br /><br />I'm not sure how to explain it to K-12, but I'll let K-12 educators figure that out :-)James Goetzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02412501436355228925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1812431336777691886.post-47199268709363955372021-07-06T16:42:54.599-04:002021-07-06T16:42:54.599-04:00My work over the past year has had me reading the ...My work over the past year has had me reading the NGSS closely to align my project with national curriculum standards. I found that the current NGSS has little to no information about any process to revise the standards going forward. However, some organizations saw similar problems with the NGSS as it was being developed. One organization was Ocean Literacy. They saw that the Life Science portion of the NGSS was heavily slanted towards familiar terrestrial life and largely ignored ocean life (this remains true). They published some guidelines to better incorporate ocean science into lessons that meet the existing NGSS and provide links to teaching resources. This may be a good approach. The NGSS Life Science standards are heavily slanted to emphasize natural selection. Rather than try to revise the standards (I'm not even sure NGSS HAS a process to do this), perhaps publish some guidelines to better incorporate the concept of genetic drift within lessons that meet the existing standards. Check out the Ocean Literacy website, here: http://oceanliteracy.wp2.coexploration.org/ocean-sciences-in-the-next-generation-science-standards/Nicholas Kilzernoreply@blogger.com