How we got here: An inquiry-based activity about human evolution

Science

Volumn 338, Issue 6114, 2012, Pages 1554-1555

  Price, Rebecca M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HOMINID; HUMAN EVOLUTION; LEARNING; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; STUDENT;

CHIMPANZEE; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SKULL; STUDENT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AWARDS AND PRIZES; BIOLOGY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; HISTOLOGY; HOMINID; METHODOLOGY; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; TEACHING;

ANIMALS; AWARDS AND PRIZES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOLOGY; CURRICULUM; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; SKULL; TEACHING;

EID: 84871401012     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1215221     Document Type: Short Survey

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10. This activity was inspired by another activity written by D. Jablonski and M. Foote. C. Tzou introduced me to the 5e Inquiry Cycle. Thanks to B. Burgett, G. Kochhar-Lindgren, and M. Servetnick for their support, to S. Rosenthal, and to the many students who have participated in this activity. M. Groom, J. Peters, and editors at Science offered valuable advice for improving this piece.