UM atUM [S01-ep06]: From Teaching Evolution to the Ornithology Collection
This week, Mathieu Sicard fromISEM and Sylvie Hurtrez from the Mivegec laboratory will be joining us to present *From the Lab to the Classroom: Evolution in Action*, a teaching guide designed with and for middle and high school science teachers. In the second half of the program, Audrey Théron will introduce 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 the life and earth sciences presented the result of a three-year collaborative effort: a new kind of educational textbook titled From the Lab to the Classroom: Evolution in Action. The idea is to incorporate resources drawn from scientific articles into lesson plans for high school students, all centered on the theme of evolution and, more specifically, natural selection.
Mathieu Sicard ofthe Montpellier Institute of Evolutionary Sciences (ISEM) and Sylvie Hurtrez of the Mivegec laboratory both participated in this groundbreaking initiative as biology researchers. They are here with us today to discuss it.
In the second half of the program, Audrey Théron, collections manager at the University of Montpellier, returns to introduce you to the ornithology collection. We’re heading down to the basement of the Institute of Botany to meet these funny-looking birds.
AtUM , you’ve got the schedule—let’s get started!
Co-production: Divergence FM / University of Montpellier
Host: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Interview: Aline Périault / Lucie Lecherbonnier
Reporting and editing: Lucie Lecherbonnier
Director: Anna Demeulandre
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