All Journal of College Science Teaching resources

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Concept mapping in the organic chemistry laboratory can supplant cookbook activities with higher cognitive exercises. The common thread of most organic lab experiments is the synthesis, isolation, purification, and characterization of a carbon compou...

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Issues in Science and Technology

In this course, students select a current issue in science and technology and then explore it in a scientific manner. They work in groups and individually to examine the history behind the science and technology that have led to the issue and conside...

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Writing Science Effectively

To teach writing to science students, we designed a collaborative learning community linking students in biology and English courses in author-editor relationships. This article describes the project to date: theoretical background, pedagogy, process...

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Lessons Online

The instructors of an Earth science course used WebCT, a multipurpose software package, to create an online supplement to their course. It included class e-mail, science hyperlinks, an online calendar, an online discussion board, and online handouts....

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Research and Teaching: Inquiry in the Community College Biology Lab

A qualitative analysis of students’ reactions and outcomes to a long-term inquiry experience in a freshman biology course shows positive results. Students posed research questions and designed experiments. The analysis shows that students reacted f...

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Community Service

Service learning provides a novel learning experience for science students while furnishing a service to the community. The implementation and assessment of a service learning project involving an Earth science fair are described. ...

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Favorite Demonstration: The Rules of Research

Demonstrations are wonderful educational strategies for reinforcing and stimulating learning. They are highly instructional as well as entertaining if suitably incorporated into lectures and laboratory sessions. Unfortunately, the educational value o...