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The University of Arizona’s Teaching Teams Program allows students who know their course’s lecture material and feel confident with their abilities to assist peers in understanding difficult concepts, completing projects, or solving complex probl...
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Constructing Knowledge in the Lecture Hall
The standard lecture/note-taking format is not an effective way for students to learn introductory biology. However, it is difficult to implement an active-learning approach unless the students prepare adequately for class. This article describes a f...
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Navigating the Active Learning Swamp
The authors surveyed 29 fellow faculty by asking them to define active learning, to rate how effectively different teaching techniques contribute to active learning, and to list the three teaching techniques they use most frequently. After exploring ...
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Editor's Corner: As We Teach, We Learn . . .
The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....
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Through the Massachusetts Parent Involvement Project (MassPIP), teams of community businesses, service organizations, school personnel, parents, and children joined together and planned and conducted science, mathematics, and technology related activ...
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Commentary: He Should Have Seen It Coming When the Spiders Hatched
An opinion piece about education being a lifestyle and how an educator brings a spouse into that lifestyle....
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Their Turn to Teach: High school students teach physics to elementary students
As all educators realize at some point in their careers, the best way to learn something is to teach it. This is also an excellent way to demonstrate a sound understanding of a topic. So, when the authors’ physics students spent time teaching at lo...
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In Search of Cosmic Rays: A student physics project aimed at finding the origin of cosmic rays
The authors discuss the Cosmic Ray Observatory Project (CROP), focusing on their high school’s participation in the project. Students build and monitor cosmic ray detectors to count and study cosmic rays and to determine whether or not the time of ...
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Editor's Roundtable: <i>Dragonfly</i>TV takes flight
Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the first season of DragonflyTV. ...
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Research and Teaching: Gauging Students’ Learning in the Classroom
To find out what helps students to learn, the author administered Elaine Seymour’s Student Assessment of their learning Gains instrument to her introductory biology classes. Using the student feedback from the 1998 semester, she changed her teachin...