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Journal Article

Using refrigerator magnets, foam blocks, ink pads, and modeling clay, students manipulate the letters of the alphabet at multiple angles, reconstructing three-dimensional forms from two-dimensional data. This exercise increases students’ spatial re...

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Favorite Demonstration: A Bright Idea

The typical approach to teaching the scientific method entails presenting a series of steps meant to make the logic behind the scientific method more intelligible. Unfortunately, this alone does not fully instill an understanding of testable-hypothes...

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The Human Side of Science

More and more plays dealing with science are coming to the stage. This provides a wonderful opportunity for science teachers to engage humanities students in a serious exploration of science. This article describes how four plays (Michael Frayn’s C...

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Web-Based Warm Up Exercises in Just-in-Time Teaching

The authors used warm-up exercises in Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) to reveal students’ prior knowledge and misconceptions in biology, chemistry, and physics. This article demonstrates how the use of preparatory warm-up exercises and analysis of stu...

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Research and Teaching: The Visionlearning Project

Although the proliferation of teaching resources on the Internet is extensive, little is known about these materials’ use or utility. The Visionlearning project is a multiyear effort to design and evaluate web-based interdisciplinary science teachi...