Evolution Education is based on three core principles:

• K-12 science education is failing to teach evolution unequivocally as a central principle in biology
• Students learn science best by doing actual science

• Teachers become more effective educators when they participate in authentic scientific research

To this end, we collaborate with science teachers and their classrooms to design innovative in-class experiments

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Do lizard moms choose the best sites for their eggs?
Aaron Reedy and his class at Thomas Kelly High School collaborated with scientist Dan Warner to design a study to answer this question. They presented lizard moms with soils of varying moisture levels and found that moms strongly preferred to lay their eggs in the wettest soil. Next, by randomizing eggs across moisture conditions, they confirmed that mom knows best: the soils that moms preferred led to the highest survival and largest hatchlings!

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A new model for scientific discovery
Science in the high school classroom doesn't typically involve new discovery or scientific publication... but we want to change that!
For example, teacher Aaron Reedy, scientist Dan Warner, and students at Thomas Kelly High School published their new findings in a leading scientific journal. You can read the paper here. We work with teachers to design in-class studies that create new discoveries and scientific knowledge.