In this Issue:
- Registration for NABT 2022 Now Open
- Last Call for Nominations: 2022 NABT Undergraduate Educator Awards
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Call for Posters: 2022 Biology Education Poster Session
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NABT Community Conversation: Equity – Undergraduate Research & Other High Impact Practices
- 2022 Maurice R. Hilleman Essay Contest for Students in U.S. & Canada!
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BSCS Seeks Teacher Collaborators for Climate Education Pathways
- Celebrate the 17th Annual Endangered Species Day on May 20th
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Revisiting The Liberal Art of Science: An Agenda for Action
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Registration for NABT 2022 Now Open
Join us in Indianapolis from November 10-13 for a great program of educational sessions, engaging speakers, an interactive exhibit hall, special events, and more! Look for program updates at NABTConference.com
NABT is once again offering discounts for groups of three or more attendees. The group can be colleagues at a single school or district, or it can be you and your biology buddies looking forward to a long-awaited reunion. Contact NABT at conference@nabt.org for details.
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Last Call for Nominations:
2022 NABT Undergraduate Educator Awards
May 1st is the last day to make nominations for the awards coordinated by the NABT Two-Year College and Four-Year College & University Sections. Nominate yourself or a colleague for an award below to recognize excellence in undergraduate biology education.
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Call for Posters:
2022 Biology Education Poster Session
The poster session is divided into three categories, including two student competitions. Students and advisers are strongly encouraged to review the 2022 rubrics before submission.
- Student Competition: Biology Education Research – This category encourages and rewards a scholarly, data-driven approach to teaching by the next generation of educators. As such, it is only open to undergraduate or graduate student presenters. All submissions must include a faculty mentor as a secondary author.
- Student Competition: Mentored Student Research – This category encourages and celebrates mentored student research as a highly effective teaching/learning activity. This category is open to undergraduate presenters at two-year or four-year institutions, as well as high school students doing college-level research. All submissions must include a faculty or graduate student mentor as a secondary author.
- General Category (non-competition) – Open to all participants, posters can highlight new teaching strategies, techniques, or programs.
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NABT Community Conversation: Equity – Undergraduate Research & Other High Impact Practices
What do you learn when you have spent more than a decade pursuing the idea that undergraduate research and other "high impact practices" are the tools needed to bring equity not just in STEM, but in all higher education? How do you take success in the classroom and bring it to scale at your institution and to other institutions in your state? How do you recover from setbacks? How do you nurture a community of leaders who will not only continue the work but will take it to even greater success?
Join Dr. Gita Bangera as she shares her journey as a change agent in the community college ecosystem during this Community Conversation hosted by NABT's Two-Year College Section.
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2022 Maurice R. Hilleman Essay Contest for Students in U.S. & Canada!
This year’s writing prompt focuses on determination in science. Dr. Hilleman, one of history’s most accomplished scientists, used determination to progress toward his goal of wiping out childhood diseases.
Who? Students in grades 6-12 (Quebec grades 6-11)
What? Six winners (3 U.S. & 3 Canada) will each receive US $1,000 and be honored during a virtual celebration.
- Teachers named on winning essays will receive a book signed by Dr. Paul Offit and one-year of complimentary membership to NABT.
How? Learn about Dr. Hilleman, and then write a 500- to 600-word essay that responds to the prompt: “Maurice Hilleman was a determined scientist. Describe what this means and provide an example of determination in science.”
When? The official contest deadline is 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on June 10, 2022.
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BSCS Seeks Teacher Collaborators for
Climate Education Pathways
The organizations are developing curriculum materials and professional development with the best approaches to student and teacher learning in mind. Teacher-collaborators will field test an 8-week digital high school science unit about climate and biology developed for the NGSS.
In addition, participation will include online professional development (PD) to support teachers on teaching climate change and biology concepts to students with an emphasis on adapting the unit to include local climate phenomena, attending to student thinking, and maintaining coherent science content storylines. Teachers will also learn how to support student environmental science agency. The professional development will make extensive use of analyzing teaching through video. In the professional development, teachers will have time to plan how they want to adapt the unit for their community context and local climate phenomena.
Participation in this project will require a commitment from participating teachers spanning two academic years. The application has been extended until the end of April.
Teachers who are a part of the field test have the opportunity to be paid up to $2,700 over the course of 1.5 years (January 2023 - May 2024).
More information is available at https://bscs.org/upcoming_programs/climate-education-pathways/.
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Celebrate the 17th Annual
Endangered Species Day on May 20th
Endangered Species Day is only a few weeks away, and we are excited to celebrate threatened and endangered species on Friday, May 20th. Endangered Species Day offers biology, environmental science, and other teachers at all grade levels an opportunity to educate students about endangered plant and animal species and organize special activities.
Endangered Species Day activities can range in length from one class period to longer projects. Some ideas for celebrating with your students are below:
One Class Period
- Read an article or book about an endangered species and discuss.
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Do an endangered species art project; see a list of suggested crafts here.
- Schedule a guest speaker from a conservation organization to talk about a local endangered species and what can be done to protect that species.
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Screen a film or video featuring endangered species; see a list of suggested films and videos here.
- Host a class party to celebrate a species that is no longer endangered, such as bald eagles, peregrine falcons, or grizzly bears.
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Participate in the 2nd Annual Endangered Species Chalk Art Event!
Longer Activities
- Take students on a nature walk through a local park, refuge, or nature area.
- Arrange a class trip to a local conservation center, zoo, or aquarium to learn about endangered species.
- Plant a pollinator garden on school grounds for bees, butterflies or other pollinators.
- Have students write a newspaper column about endangered species.
- Organize a school-wide Endangered Species Day fair with exhibits.
- Create displays about endangered species in the school library or the entryways and hallways.
- Write children’s storybooks about endangered species and read them to younger grades in your school or district.
- Write a narrative, story, or comic about an endangered species.
Other resources including event ideas, event planning tips, suggested films and readings, stickers, bookmarks, banners, and coloring and activity sheets, and more can be found at www.endangeredspeciesday.org.
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NABT is a proud member of the Endangered Species Coalition. |
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Revisiting The Liberal Art of Science:
An Agenda for Action
"Science influences every aspect of contemporary American life, yet the United States has been described as a nation of scientific illiterates. The appraisal of leaders in government, education, and the private sector is that the welfare of the nation and the individual will be improved when all citizens have sufficient understanding of science to make soundly based personal, civic, and professional decisions. This national goal can be achieved only through the radical reform of science education at all levels. Of critical concern is education in the natural sciences at the undergraduate level. The Liberal Art of Science: Agenda for Action addresses this concern."
This call for action is as urgent today as it was in 1990, and an NSF-funded project led by NABT Past-President, Gordon Uno (University of Oklahoma) and James Collins (Arizona State University) intends to revisit and renew the Liberal Art of Science (LAS).
Recently, a series of essays by scientists and science education experts have been released to help frame major sections of the revised LAS. The National Center for Science and Civic Engagement (NCSCE) is hosting the collection, with more essays and reports being released as the revision process of the LAS continues.
Please contact Gordon Uno (guno@ou.edu) or James Collins (jcollins@asu.edu) for information about the revision of the Liberal Art of Science or to share comments and suggestions.
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