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GENERATE: The Game of Energy Choices
Promoting energy literacy while cultivating systems thinking
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Virtual Field Trips
Pivoting Cross-Curricular Experiential Learning to an Online Platform
The Science Teacher—July/August 2021 (Volume 88, Issue 6)
By Heather McPherson, Gregory Frank, Rebecca Pearce, and Ernest Hoffman
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Collaboration Crushes Competition!
Preparing High School Research Students for Success in Big Science Careers
The Science Teacher—July/August 2021 (Volume 88, Issue 6)
By Lucinda Hemmick, Dame Forbes, Robert Bolen, Mary Kroll, Dianna Gobler, John Halloran, Vivian Stojanoff, and Aleida Perez
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Who Is Most Affected By COVID-19?
Using StoryMaps With Student Investigations
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Media Literacy in the Age of COVID and Climate Change
The Science Teacher—July/August 2021 (Volume 88, Issue 6)
By Jocelyn Miller, Linda Rost, Connor Bryant, Robyn Embry, Shazia Iqbal, Claire Lannoye-Hall, and Missie Olson
Resource Rendezvous
Soldiers of Science
The Science Teacher—July/August 2021 (Volume 88, Issue 6)
By Holly Amerman
FOCUS ON PHYSICS
Crunching Cans and Generating Power
The Science Teacher—July/August 2021 (Volume 88, Issue 6)
By Paul G. Hewitt
Citizen Science
Learning on Location With NASA GLOBE Observer
The Science Teacher—July/August 2021 (Volume 88, Issue 6)
By Jill Nugent
Editor's Corner
COVID-19: One Year Later
The Science Teacher—July/August 2021 (Volume 88, Issue 6)
By Ann Haley MacKenzie
Research and Teaching
Adding Necessary Rigor to Engineering Pedagogical Change
Instructional Innovation Versus Research-Informed Counter-Resistance
Journal of College Science Teaching—July/August 2021 (Volume 50, Issue 6)
By Yonghee Lee, Carl Lund, and Randy Yerrick
In this study, we explore the teaching of an acclaimed engineering education professor and his struggles to transform his classroom in light of the National Academy of Engineering standards. We argue that pedagogical changes, particularly in contexts where students have been highly successful, may be preemptively abandoned in response to students’ floundering. We offer three instances in which direct counter-resistance to students’ responses to pedagogical innovation allowed this expert instructor to achieve his long-term goal of students’ higher-level thinking. Implications for future teaching and research are discussed.