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Speciation

At the February 14 meeting of the Ohio Board of Education, the Achievement Committee was charged with considering whether the deleted lesson plan Critical Analysis of Evolution should be replaced by a different lesson, and if so to present any recommendation to the entire State Board for adoption.

The following lesson plan has been prepared by OCS member Steve Rissing as an example of such a replacement lesson. It shows how current areas of active inquiry and discussion in biology can be presented with grade-appropriate rigor in a pedagogically effective manner. The first two files are in Microsoft Word format.

Speciation Lesson - Teacher Version

Speciation Lesson - Student Version

Supplemental PowerPoint: How New Species Form

Common Ground

OCS members Ted Scharf and Phil Geis have prepared an essay Evolution vs. Young Earth and Intelligent Design Creationism in Ohio's Public School Curriculum: Finding the Common Ground. Portions of this appeared as an op-ed in The Cincinnati Enquirer on January 29, 2006.

Common Ground