{"id":2695,"date":"2016-02-18T16:21:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T20:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/?p=2695"},"modified":"2016-02-25T19:15:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T23:15:53","slug":"teachers-explore-local-fossils-with-paleontologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/18\/teachers-explore-local-fossils-with-paleontologists\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers Explore Local Fossils with Paleontologists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2696\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/18\/teachers-explore-local-fossils-with-paleontologists\/img_4662_cropped\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2696\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2696\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2696\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_4662_cropped-1024x826.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee teachers inspect and categorize fossils at the Darwin Day Teacher Workshop\" width=\"640\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_4662_cropped-1024x826.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_4662_cropped-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_4662_cropped-768x620.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2696\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tennessee teachers inspect and categorize fossils at the Darwin Day Teacher Workshop<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fossils and paleontology were the special topics this year for an exciting <a href=\"http:\/\/darwindaytn.org\/teacherworkshop.html\" target=\"_blank\">teacher workshop<\/a> hosted at NIMBioS, the final event for <a href=\"http:\/\/darwindaytn.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Darwin Day Tennessee<\/a> festivities. Lesson plans for K-12 on local fossils, developed by paleontologist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohio.edu\/people\/stigall\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alycia Stigall<\/a> of Ohio State University, were featured at the event. Thirteen Tennessee teachers attended, including a group that road tripped from three hours away. The workshop was planned and organized by UT paleontology graduate students <a href=\"http:\/\/web.eps.utk.edu\/graduate\/gradstudents.php\" target=\"_blank\">Jen Bauer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/web.eps.utk.edu\/graduate\/gradstudents.php\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Sheffield<\/a>, and many volunteers helped on the day by demonstrating lesson plans and interacting with participants. Teachers took home many goodies: lesson plans, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hhmi.org\/educational-materials\" target=\"_blank\">HHMI<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ncse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NCSE<\/a> materials on teaching evolutionary topics, and free fossil kits of donated local fossils that were assembled by the organizers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fossils and paleontology were the special topics this year for an exciting teacher workshop hosted at NIMBioS, the final event for Darwin Day Tennessee festivities. Lesson plans for K-12 on local fossils, developed by paleontologist Alycia Stigall of Ohio State &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/18\/teachers-explore-local-fossils-with-paleontologists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,76,71,70,69,63,14,87],"tags":[16,102,59,123,101,45,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2695"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2702,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2695\/revisions\/2702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}