Teachers' Workshop Scheduled During Paleontology Meeting

by Annette Trinity-Stevens

9/24/01 BOZEMAN --  Local schoolteachers can sign up now for a workshop by professional paleontologists on using fossils to teach science.

The hands-on workshop, "Learning from the Fossil Record," is Saturday, Oct. 6, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman.

The workshop is offered by the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, which is holding its 61st annual meeting Oct. 3-6 at Montana State University.

Cost for the workshop is $35, which includes a copy of the booklet "Evolution in the Fossil Record" and admission to the society's afternoon presentations on campus.

Teachers of all grades are welcome but those working with grades 5 and up would benefit the most, said workshop organizer Judy Scotchmoor.

Scotchmoor heads education and public projects for the University of California Museum of Paleontology. Several other fossil experts will help with the workshop including MSU paleontologist Mary Schweitzer.

Teachers can register on-line at www.vertpaleo.org or at the museum the morning of the workshop.

The workshop will show teachers how to use student interest in fossils to help them learn about evolution and the nature of science. How scientists use fossil evidence to reconstruct the past will also be demonstrated.

A record 1,200 paleontologists from around the world are attending the society's annual meeting in Bozeman, the first time the meeting has been held in Montana.

For more information, contact Scotchmoor at (510) 642-4877 or by e-mail at jscotch@uclink4.berkeley.edu.

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