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What Do Plants Do in the Dark?

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How does soap make dishes clean?

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How Can We Pull Colors Apart?

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Why Is The Image Upside Down?

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Archive: Teacher Tip Tuesday: Taking Familiar Digital Tools to the Next Level: Padlet and Jamboard, December 8, 2020

Whether in teaching and learning in a classroom or virtual space, digital tools can be leveraged as a means for students to share ideas, evaluate competing ideas, and give and receive critique. This month’s focus is Padlet and Jamboard. Explore how...

Middle School Elementary High School General Science

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Comparison of Student Success Between High-Clicker and Low-Clicker Frequency in a Large-Enrollment Introductory Biology Course

Active-learning approaches have recently been broadly promoted on many campuses, but research is limited on how varying levels of interaction impact student success. The aim of this study was to compare student success between two sections of an intr...

By Lauren Shea, Chantale Bégin, Christopher Osovitz, and Luanna Prevost

Biology Teaching Strategies

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Peer Review and Response

Students in an upper-division Environmental Chemistry course used peer review and response to reviewer comments to improve their writing skills. The process employed an anonymous and timed in-class Peer Review Format. In addition to editing peer pape...

By Dulani Samarasekara, Todd Mlsna, and Deb Mlsna

Postsecondary Chemistry Literacy Teaching Strategies

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Student-Driven Research in the First Year

We designed the Integrated Sciences First-Year Program (ISFP) to introduce students to the nature and process of science early in their academic career, help them develop skills and competencies, and create an intellectual community of learners to fo...

By Christina Cianfrani, Sarah Hews, and Christene DeJong

Postsecondary Research Teaching Strategies

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Changes in Elementary Teachers’ Conceptions About Matter

While research has investigated elementary teachers’ understanding of science content, such research is often limited to topics typically not addressed in elementary school curricula. Yet, research has illustrated that many elementary teachers stru...

By Jerrid W. Kruse, Jesse Wilcox, and Lucas Menke

NGSS Pedagogy Professional Learning old Teacher Preparation

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Fostering Nonscientist Thinking on Evolution Concepts Through the Teaching for Transformative Experiences in Science (TTES) Model

Understanding of evolution is foundational to be a scientifically literate citizen because it allows analysis of socioscientific issues, such as biodiversity conservation, biotechnology applications, and human-induced climate change. Unfortunately, s...

By Rachel Sparks and Rebekka Darner

Biology Pedagogy Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies