Time is running short to register for the Oklahoma Evolution Road Trip! It is May 30 through June 2 and costs $350 which includes travel, accommodations, and most meals. (The cost is $400 if you prefer single accommodations.) This is a real bargain; a recent Big Bend ecotour of similar length cost almost $3000. Home base is the University of Oklahoma Biological Station on beautiful Lake Texoma. We will see fossil deposits, dinosaur footprints, and living trees, and visit creationist museums. There will be plenty of time for discussion. Dr. Stanley Rice and Dr. Gordon Eggleton, both of Southeastern Oklahoma State University, will lead the trip. The tentative deadline is May 3, though we may extend this upon request. Pre-college teachers will receive professional development credit. More information, and registration information, is available at http://www.ou.edu/uobs/evolution.html as well as at Dr. Rice’s blog (http://www.honest-ab.blogspot.com) and website (http://www.stanleyrice.com). If necessary you may attend for just part of the trip, although registration costs remain the same. We’ve talked about evolution; now let’s go see some stunning evidence for it!
The trip is organized by Oklahomans for Excellence in Science Education and is an activity endorsed by OAS. It should be especially valuable for science educators. As always in OESE and OAS events, there will be wonderful people to talk with.
This will not be a creation vs. evolution debate event. When we visit creationist museums, we will listen to them and ask questions, which we will discuss by ourselves later.
Help spread the word to people you know who may be interested. Tax-deductible donations are accepted by the University of Oklahoma Foundation (see the registration website) to help pre-college science teachers.
See you at the Field Meeting! Let's post photos and information about what we see at Lake Eufala after we get home. If you are a board member who has misplaced the login information, contact me (srice@se.edu) and I will send it to you.
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