All Journal of College Science Teaching resources

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This article explains how students can do hands-on science in a large lecture theater with seats bolted to the floor. It specifically describes the logistics of doing a collapsing can activity in such a large class to demonstrate the birth of a black...

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Good Science Begins With Good Questions

Students in a large, active-learning, freshman biology class learned to ask better questions with the aid of a new taxonomy for student questions. The taxonomy provided a tool that helped them (and the instructors) to evaluate their questions and pro...

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A New Paradigm in Integrated Math and Science Courses

This article describes an interdisciplinary curriculum designed by the authors that connects math, science, and technology with the lives of their students. Changing students’ understanding of science required building connections across discipline...

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Scavenger Hunts: Chasing Down Scientific Answers

Describing a scavenger hunt activity that stimulates active learning, the authors present objectives, examples, pitfalls, grading methods, and an evaluation based on their course experiences with the technique. Although the method was used in lower-d...

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Presenting Science in a Video-Delivered, Web-Based Format

The authors offered a course entitled Science and Technology in Society to high school students using live video presentations and World Wide Web courseware. Distance-learning high school students performed as well as traditional and distance-learnin...

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Research and Teaching: An Experimental Project Approach to Biology

In the study described in this article, the author examined the educational benefits of an experimental project approach to students taking the last course of the introductory sequence, Biology 103. Educational benefits were defined in terms of analy...

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Student Symposia on Primary Research Articles

This article describes how conducting in-class symposia in which students present primary research articles can provide a window into the process of scientific research and communication, broaden students’ exposure to research, and improve their re...

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Applying Ecological Principles on the Job

The authors developed a course that requires students to work in groups to address a local ecological problem of interest to a client external to the university. Students learn the skills needed to apply their knowledge and gain the satisfaction of a...