Maine School of Science and Math - STEM Collaborative Educator’s Camp
Sunday, January 29, 2012 at 02:53PM pgEd is happy to announce we will be teaching a week-long course at the Maine School of Science and Math this summer. We will be there in July for the STEM Collaborative Educator's Camp, working with teachers from all over Maine. Teachers, if you are interested in learning more about this *free* professional developmen opportunity, please click on the above link!
The course we are teaching is " Personal Genetics in the High School Classroom: Ethical, Legal, Social and Scientific Issues", and the description is below:
This course explores personal genetics and its impact on society. Through workshop-style sessions, we will look at examples of the hopes, realities and controversies in personal genetics. We will start with an overview: Why is genetics getting more personal? What has been happening, scientifically and technologically, since the completion of the Human Genome Project? Starting with scientific questions and concepts, we will make connections to real world opportunities and conundrums our students and their families will face in the coming years. In this course, we will also explore resources available through the Personal Genetics Education Project for creating lessons plans about personal genetics.
