Undergraduates Learn Evolution Through Teaching Kindergartners About Blind Mexican Cavefish.

ABSTRACT: The development and implementation of a scientific outreach activity comes with a number of challenges. A successful outreach event must match the sophistication of content to the audience, be engaging, expand the knowledge base for participants, and be inclusive for a diverse audience. Ideally, a successful event will also convey the importance of scientific outreach for future scientists and citizens. In this paper, we present a simple, hands-on guide to a scientific outreach event targeted to kindergarten learners. This activity also pursued a second goal: the inclusion of undergraduate students in the development and delivery of the event. We provided a detailed set of four activities, focusing on the blind Mexican cavefish, which were enthusiastically received by kindergarten audience

SUBMITTER: Gross JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5604892 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature