Event
Activities
Annual Darwin Day
Lectures
Join the Darwin Day Program in promoting Darwin
Day lectures across the world on or around February 12. Lectures may
be a part of a course or presented to a classroom of students, a
lecture series offered by the department, or the lecture may be part
of a larger event featuring a speaker and open to the public. A
diversity of subjects can be explored on the topics celebrated
through Darwin Day. Possible speakers can be found in local academic
institutions or brought in from different locations. Speakers
participating in annual Darwin Day lectures are encouraged to submit
a paper of their presentation for possible publication in the Darwin
Day Program's annual anthology. Event organizers are also credited
in the publication.
Choose from the following Darwin Day
Lecture event formats and ideas for further resources:
Workshops
An excellent
activity suggestion is the workshop. Workshops can be directed
towards a number of special audiences - students in different grade
levels, local teachers, the general public, etc. Workshops have
shown to be an effective educational practice in that they allow
hands-on activity and interaction thereby increasing learning
opportunities for all involved. Consider planning a workshop for
your Darwin Day event.
Choose from the following links for
further materials and suggestions:
Educational
Outreach
Most of the Darwin Day events and activities have
an educational outreach component. One of the primary goals of
Darwin Day and the Darwin Day Program is to improve the public
understanding of science and through increasing the number of events
taking place across the world, this goal is being reached. Here,
however, we have included specific activities that fall under
educational outreach within your community and can be organized by
individuals and groups able to plan an outreach program with plenty
of thought and expertise involved.
Choose from the following
resources for further information:
Informational
Distribution
Distributing information is an easy and
effective form of educational outreach and it provides an option for
those individuals who have been unable to plan a large event or who
are interested in getting involved at this level. Distributing
material is also often a part of many Darwin Day celebrations and so
the resources found here will be useful to numerous event organizers
and participants.
Choose from the following links to access
further resources:
Fun Learning
Activities
Learning activities can be included in larger
events or organized on their own. Classrooms with little room for a
complete line-up of activities may choose one activity in
celebration of Darwin Day. Small groups may also enjoy organizing a
learning activity among their membership or within the community.
Choose from the following ideas to access further learning
activity materials (many of these links are currently inactive
because of developments underway):
Darwin Day
Entertainment
An event with an entertainment component is
a popular choice among Darwin Day event participants. Science is
rarely shown to be an entertaining pursuit that has impacted many
disciplines outside of the science. By exploring the sciences
through the arts, the accessibility of learning is available to more
people and fun becomes a common element associated with
science.
Choose from the entertaining ideas below for further
information (many of these links are currently inactive because of
developments underway):
Media Awareness
& Outreach
An important form of outreach to include in
Darwin Day events and celebrations is with the media. There are many
forms of media within a given community and in today's society, the
media is a powerful outlet for distributing information and
learning. Consider implementing a media outreach project within your
event to increase general awareness and participation in annual
Darwin Day events.
Visit the Darwin Day Program's Media
Relations area for a few resources. We hope to develop further
materials for this outreach project in the future.
Sales Tables
The sales table is often
included in Darwin Day events and celebrations. There are several
places where event organizers can obtain items to sell for Darwin
Day. There are also many items which can be made relatively easy by
event volunteers.
Choose from the following list for further
information:
Event Add-Ons
There are
several small bits and pieces which can be added to a Darwin Day
event or celebration, including some of the activities include
above. Here we try to gather common add-ons used in events to
improve the line-up of activities and offer that much more to event
participants.
Choose from the following links to access
further resources and ideas:
If you have anything to add to the above resources, please
e-mail your ideas and suggestions to info@darwinday.org and we will
include them here!
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