Vertebrate Paleontology for Teachers

Catalog description

(Spring (even years)) This course will focus on the evolution of vertebrate life throughout Earth’s history. As a result of this course, students will demonstrate an understanding of evolutionary processes. Through class discussions and assignments, students will identify the vast diversity of both extinct and extant vertebrates, and their interrelationships with one another. At the end of the course, students will be able to: • Describe the evolution and processes involving in organismal change through time • Identify the diversity within vertebrate clades • Describe phylogenetics and the interrelationships of vertebrates • Create a unit of study specific to their teaching situation that incorporates major course content specific to the evolution of vertebrate life.