Bringing Astrobiology Down to Earth

Author:

Quinlan Catherine L.1

Affiliation:

1. CATHERINE QUINLAN is a high school biology teacher in New Jersey and an instructor for U.S. Satellite Laboratory's NASA Endeavor graduate course. She has a doctorate in Science Education from Teachers College, Columbia University; e-mail: drcatherinequinlan@gmail.com

Abstract

Astrobiology seeks to understand life in the universe through various disciplines and approaches. Astrobiology not only provides crosscutting content, but its study supports the three dimensions of learning promoted by the Next Generation Science Standards. While astrobiology research has been progressive and has accomplished great feats for science and society, astrobiology education in schools and colleges has lagged behind astrobiology research. Astrobiology can be used in the classroom as an engaging context for the Socratic method or in long- or short-term projects to encourage higher-order thinking.

Publisher

University of California Press

Subject

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous),Education

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