Science at UM [S01-ep06]: From teaching evolution to the ornithology collection
This week, Mathieu Sicard fromISEM and Sylvie Hurtrez from the Mivegec laboratory join us to present From the Lab to the Classroom: Evolution in Action. An educational manual designed with and for science teachers in middle and high schools. In the second part of the program, Audrey Théron introduces us to the birds in the zoology collection.
From dissecting a cockroach to freezing a woodlouse, and learning about reproduction by studying a sheep's ovary, we all have lasting memories of our biology classes in middle school or high school. But who remembers ever coming across the draft of a scientific article on their lab bench?
In November, a group of researchers and professors in life and earth sciences presented the results of a three-year collaborative project: a new kind of educational textbook called From the Lab to the Classroom: Evolution in Action. The idea is to integrate resources from scientific articles into secondary school teaching sequences, all based on the theme of evolution and, more specifically, natural selection.
Mathieu Sicard fromthe Institute of Evolutionary Sciences in Montpellier (ISEM) and Sylvie Hurtrez from the Mivegec laboratory both participated in this unprecedented initiative as biology researchers. They are with us today to talk about it.
In the second part of the program, Audrey Théron, collections manager at the University of Montpellier, returns to present the ornithology collection. Head to the basement of the Institute of Botany to meet these funny birds.
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Co-production: Divergence FM / University of Montpellier
Host: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Interview: Aline Périault / Lucie Lecherbonnier
Reporting and editing: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Production: Anna Demeulandre
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