Teaching evolution
Description
Dress up as gorillas, use kitchen implements to pick up fruit and nuts to understand diversity among Galapagos finches, and debate the validity of intelligent design. All techniques used by a secondary science teacher to teach her KS4 class about Darwin and the theory of evolution.This programme shows how Caroline Molyneux, Head of Science at Balshaw CofE High School, uses these innovative and lively techniques to help her with teaching what can sometimes be a tricky subject. Her controversial approach of encouraging a student debate about creationism versus evolution involves the school chaplain, who provides guidance to the pupils on creationist views.
Runtime
16 min
Series
Subjects
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
2008
Database
Alexander Street
Direct Link
Similar Films
Demonstrating chemistry - spectacular experiments. The pulsing reaction. 8
Practically science
Math in construction technology
Scientists Under Attack. Genetic Engineering in the Magnetic Field of Money
How did we get here?
Worth the trip. National Space Centre. 5
Disconnected. A Month Without Computers
Lesson starters. Naughty balloons. Heat. 1
You only live twice. Virtual reality meets real world in second life
The anthropic principle
Game theory. Lost in New York
The Meaning of Life
Careers
Taking risks with Ofsted
Science video vocab. Hermaphrodite