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A Team-Taught Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminar With a Focus on Blood

First-Year Seminars (FYS) offer a unique mode of introducing college students to new topics, research practices, and approaches to learning that they may not have been exposed to in high school. In this article, we outline the successes and challen...

By Adele J. Wolfson and Justin Armstrong

Postsecondary

Journal Article

A Learning Tool for Chemistry and Health Professions Students: Mnemonics for Writing Net Ionic Equations

Chemical mnemonic devices have been designed to aid students in understanding chemical concepts in previous years. This has been done for concepts such as oxyanions, ozonolysis, tautomerization mechanisms in organic chemistry, and writing reactions o...

By Angela L. Mahaffey

Postsecondary Chemistry Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

Evaluating Information: The Impact of Major, Class Standing, and Experience With Primary Literature

Social media platforms and other internet sites may propagate inaccurate or misleading information. This misinformation encourages speculation, rumors, and mistrust in established science. In the current study, we attempted to determine whether bio...

By Shawn Stover and Michelle Mabry

Postsecondary

Developing and Implementing a Campus-Wide Professional Development Program: Successes and Challenges

Journal Article

Developing and Implementing a Campus-Wide Professional Development Program: Successes and Challenges

Gateways-ND is a 5-year, National Science Foundation–funded effort directed toward three goals: maximizing the instructional effectiveness of postsecondary STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) faculty by building expertise in le...

By Melissa Vosen Callens, Paul Kelter, Jill Motschenbacher, James Nyachwaya, Jared L. Ladbury, and Anna M. Semanko

Postsecondary General Science

NSTA Press Book

Making Sense of Science and Religion: Strategies for the Classroom and Beyond

The authors of Making Sense of Science and Religion believe that addressing interactions between science and religion is part of all science educators’ collective job—and that this is the book that will help you facilitate discussion when the top...

By Joseph W. Shane, Lee Meadows, Ronald S. Hermann, Ian C. Binns

Postsecondary Elementary High School Informal Education Middle School Biology Evolution General Science Life Science Pedagogy Teaching Strategies Advocacy Inclusion New Science Teachers Policy Professional Learning old Research

Modeling in Learning Centers

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Modeling in Learning Centers

Exploring the concept of living and nonliving with second-grade students...

Postsecondary Early Childhood General Science Science and Engineering Practices

NSTA Press Book

Preparing Teachers for Three-Dimensional Instruction

It’s not enough for teachers to read through the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and correlate their content to the established curriculum. Teachers must prepare to make the vision of the NGSS come alive in their classrooms. Editor Jack Rh...

Postsecondary Elementary High School Middle School General Science Disciplinary Core Ideas Learning Progression NGSS Pedagogy Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning Careers New Science Teachers Policy Preservice Science Education Professional Learning old Teacher Preparation Administrators

Plastic Pollution to Solution

Journal Article

Plastic Pollution to Solution

Second graders turn knowledge into action as they engineer solutions for a real-world problem in a school makerspace....

Postsecondary Early Childhood Earth & Space Science Physics Phenomena

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