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The last visible eclipses in the continental U.S. until 2045 will be on Saturday, October 14, 2023 and Monday, April 8, 2024. While the annular eclipse (October 2023) and total eclipse (April 2024) will only be visible in a narrow band about 100 mile...
Journal Article
In this study, we analyzed the literature on teaching or learning on a topic in Earth science, environmental science, or climate change between 1995 and 2017. We investigated the length of the intervention, intervention setting and instructional leve...
By Gillian M. Puttick, Brian Drayton, and Christina Silva
Journal Article
This article looks at the effects of environmental factors such as classification, residence location, and employment status of Hispanic students who unsuccessfully completed first-semester general chemistry (Chem I) at a Hispanic-Serving or emerging...
By Blain Mamiya, Cynthia B. Powell, G. Robert Shelton, Anton Dubrovskiy, Adrian Villalta-Cerdas, Susan Broadway, Rebecca Weber, and Diana Mason
Journal Article
The Student Participation Observation Tool (SPOT) is a web-based classroom observation protocol developed for higher education STEM courses and based on research on evidence-based practices. The low-inference and objective nature of the SPOT and visu...
By Cara H. Theisen, Cassandra A. Paul, and Katrina Roseler
Journal Article
Exemplar Teaching Practices in STEM Courses in U.S. Universities
Based on the largest multi-institutional observational study of undergraduate courses in the United States, this article describes exemplar teaching practices in engineering courses as an interdisciplinary science field. The College Educational Quali...
By Corbin M. Campbell
Journal Article
Perspectives on Teaching from Early-Career Scientists
Many graduate students spend a part of their time teaching at the university level. While there is an abundance of advice from older, more established faculty, the perspective and teaching styles of graduate students are lacking in the literature. Af...
By Suchinta Arif and Melanie Duc Bo Massey
Journal Article
Building a New Interdisciplinary Service-Learning Partnership Through Virtual Connections
This article presents a synopsis of an interdisciplinary literacy-science, cross-country, fully remote service-learning (S-L) project prompted by and executed during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The article shares discussions, analyses, a...
By Lauren E. Burrow, Tonya D. Jeffery, Brian S. Wuertz, and Shelby J. Gull
Journal Article
This point of view article uses a social science lens in an attempt to understand the differing environments of the two institutions (private and public) where I taught chemistry for 3 decades. I hypothesize that differences in social class—along w...
By Anonymous
Web Seminar
Archive: Let’s Talk About How to get Published in Science Scope! May 3, 2022
Science Scope is an award-winning, peer-reviewed, practitioner's journal for grade 6–8 teachers, university faculty responsible for teacher preparation, and state and district science, supervisors and leaders....
Web Seminar
In this web seminar, leaders in science teacher education will share the latest syntheses of research on preparing elementary and secondary science teachers and cultivating science teacher leadership. Presenters are authors of chapters in the forthco...
Web Seminar
Every day NOAA scientists, technicians, and engineers work to monitor, understand, and predict environmental threats facing our nation. Among the most serious of these is sea level rise. Rising sea levels are pushin...
Web Seminar
Want a bite-size way to present at NSTA? Come learn about the two new, low-stress presentation options at NSTA Chicago and dip your toes into sharing your work. You’ll learn tips from the NSTA Professional Learning Committee, h...