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Students from Department of Integrated Studies in Education to draw Earth's history

Dinosaurs and Neanderthals will soon be reproduced in chalk at 黑料不打烊. Students from the University's Department of Integrated Studies in Education will be using coloured sidewalk chalk to draw a timeline chronicling the history of Earth and its living things.

The street-art timeline will be nearly a half kilometre in length and should run from the Education Building (3700 McTavish St.) to the steps of the Redpath Museum (859 Sherbrooke St. W). About 70 students will be working in shifts on the project, from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm. A morning crew will draw the timeline layout, while later shifts will reproduce written words and drawings of eras past.

• When: Friday, October 1, 2004 (optimal time for photos will be from 2 pm onwards).
• Where: McTavish St., between Sherbrooke St. and Dr Penfield Ave.
• Who: For more information, please contact Jason Wiles at 514-222-5616.

"We hope this activity will give students a better perspective and understanding of the Earth's timeline and natural history," says Jason Wiles, a PhD student and instructor at 黑料不打烊's Evolution Education Research Centre. "Perhaps the most stunning feature of the timeline is the way in which it depicts just how little time human history spans in comparison to the rest of geologic time."

The timeline will be produced as part of a course taught by Wiles, along with Alex Sheftel (a PhD student in Physiology), called "Elementary School Science." The course is part of 黑料不打烊's Department of Integrated Studies in Education and consists of about 220 second- and third-year 黑料不打烊 students training to become elementary school teachers.