Crossing Borders, Cultivating Futures: Monarchs, Milkweeds, and Journeys of Transformation in Science Education
February 28, 2025
8:15 AM - 4:30 PM
Location
Isadore & Sadie Dorin Forum
Address
725 W. Roosevelt Rd., Chicago, IL 60607
Cost
Free
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One-day conference sponsored by the NSF-funded project Monarchs and Milkweeds known as CIM2AS (Cultural Immersion in Monarchs and Milkweeds Advancing Science Education)–a partnership among science and science education faculty at UIC, science faculty at community colleges and universities, and high school teachers at Chicago area public high schools. The program includes plenary and parallel sessions with guest speakers and project faculty.
Attendees will learn about transformative possibilities that emerge when exploring both science and socio-cultural-political concepts, processes, and phenomena in science high school and college classrooms and in the field, while focusing on the dynamic system of monarch butterflies, and their larval host plant, milkweeds.
Sessions will explore migration, genetics, physiology, and other aspects of monarch biology, including their intricate relationship with milkweed plants; ways in which undergraduate summer interns engage in research related to the monarch-milkweed system; migration in the science and social worlds; community and Indigenous knowledges; curricular adaptation; teacher evolution; and justice-centered science.
More details will be forthcoming on the project’s website: https://cimas.uic.edu/
Plenary Speakers:
Jaime Rojo, Photographer and National Geographic Explorer
Creator of "Saving the Monarchs"
Dr. CuauhtémocSáenz-Romero, Professor, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
Reforestation of the oyamel firforests at the monarch overwintering grounds
Date posted
Dec 18, 2024
Date updated
Dec 20, 2024