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A well-structured independent literature research project with a poster session was used to introduce students to peer-reviewed literature in a general chemistry course. Overall, students reported an enhanced appreciation of the course due to perform...
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Reading Questions in Large-Lecture Courses: Limitations and Unexpected Outcomes
As an alternative to reading quizzes, a team of biochemistry instructors implemented student reading questions (Henderson and Rosenthal 2006) as a new instructional strategy within their large-enrollment biochemistry courses. Unexpected positive outc...
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Problem Solving in Biology: A Methodology
A methodology is described that teaches science process by combining informal logic and a heuristic for rating factual reliability. This system facilitates student hypothesis formation, testing, and evaluation of results. After problem solving with t...
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Society for College Science Teachers: If You Go Down to the Woods Today…
In this month’s column, the author reflects on his childhood experiences of “playing in the woods” and his insatiable love of the outdoors as compared to today’s youth, who spend the majority of their free time inside their technology-filled ...
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Case Study: Ah-choo! Increased Risk of Pollen Allergies in the Northern Hemisphere
In this problem-based learning activity designed for nonscience majors, students assume the roles of scientists working for a public relations firm. Teams of students design communication products illustrating links between climate change and pollen ...
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A Novel Lecture Series and Associated Outreach Program in the Environmental and Natural Sciences
To address the low priority given to university-level outreach, the authors created an outreach program that makes it easy for scientists to connect with the public, while at the same time providing effective transfer of scientific research results t...
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The indigo carmine demonstration (Ferguson et al. 1973), also referred to as a traffic-light demonstration (Flinn Scientific 2007a), is an example of a set of oxidation-reduction reactions that occurs within one solution. This type of demonstration c...