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The Green Room: The Top Five Environmental Stories of 2016
This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. In this month’s issue the author presents 2016's top environmental stories plus some of the best websites for environmental news....
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Focus on Physics: When What You See Is What You Hear
This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. This issue discusses the law of reflection....
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Health Wise: Why Teens Need the HPV Vaccine
This Q&A style column provides up-to-date information on current health topics—helping students (and teachers) make healthy choices. This month’s issue discusses the need for students to receive the HPV vaccine....
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Idea Bank: Keep Current With a Journal Club
The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. Students select science articles to read and report on during a monthly Journal Club. Students look forward to the activity each month. When students are given t...
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Career of the Month: Television Writer
This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Katherine Lingenfelter's career path to becoming a television writer....
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Right to the Source: Why Scientists Write
Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress. This month's issue discusses a letter written by Alexander Graham Bell....
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This article details the aim, development, and implementation of the Chemistry-Genetics Course Collaborative, a cotaught offering of a human genetics course with an honors introductory chemistry course....
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Digital Badges in Science: A Novel Approach to the Assessment of Student Learning
Digital badging is an innovative method of valid, evidence-based assessment that may be used to assess hands-on skills in undergraduate science laboratories, in research laboratories, and in fieldwork. The authors have used digital badging to assess ...
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A Discipline-Specific Approach to the History of U.S. Science Education
Through a discipline-specific approach to a course on the history of science education in the United States, the authors have spurred the interest of college science faculty and future high school science teachers as well as doctoral students in disc...
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Implementation of Peer-Reviewed Homework Assignments
In large, introductory courses, instructors and teaching assistants often struggle to provide detailed feedback on student homework in a timely manner. This article describes a peer-reviewed homework system that provides quick turnaround while offeri...
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Sesame Street Picnic: An Introductory Activity to Claims, Evidence, and Rationale
Recent calls for reform in K–16 STEM education not only emphasize mastery of content, but also call for students to engage in the scientific practice of making evidence-based claims, or scientific argumentation. However, students often struggle to ...
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The authors describe how a practical instructional development process helped a first-year assistant professor rapidly develop, implement, and assess the impact on her Analytical Chemistry course caused by three changes: (a) moving the lab into the s...
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Analyzing, interpreting, and clearly presenting real data are skills all students should develop, majors and nonmajors alike. These process skills require lots of practice coupled with targeted feedback from instructors or mentors. This article pres...
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Biology I is a required course for many STEM majors and is often their first college-level laboratory experience. The replacement of the traditional face-to-face laboratory experience with virtual laboratories could influence students’ content kno...
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Collaborative learning in small groups is commonly implemented as a part of student-centered curricula. In large-enrollment courses, details of the interactions among students as a consequence of working in collaborative groups are often unknown but ...
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Point of View: Science Classrooms as a Gateway to Comprehensive Pedagogy
This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This month’s issue discusses the importance of college-level science classrooms practicing interdisciplinarity....
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The authors sought to improve student microscope skills by implementing formative assessment techniques in addition to summative assessment approaches....
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Case Study: Let’s Get Personal: Putting Personality Into Your Cases
This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. This month’s issue discusses the importance of personalizing case study stories....
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Great news for multitasking middle school teachers: Science educators Terry Shiverdecker and Jessica Fries-Gaither can help you blend inquiry-based science and literacy instruction to support student learning and maximize your time. Several unique fe...
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Big Data, Small Devices: Investigating the Natural World Using Real-Time Data (Book Sample)
Now your students can transform their mobile phones and tablets into tools for learning about everything from weather to water quality. Big Data, Small Devices shows you how. This book is designed for Earth and environmental science teachers who want...
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In this lesson, students will explore the relationship between tropospheric ozone and temperature and how human populations affect ozone levels. Disciplinary core ideas covered are weather and climate and human impacts on Earth systems. Tips for scal...
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In this lesson, students will use mean (average) temperature data to determine changes in surface temperature over time in different areas of Earth. Disciplinary core ideas covered are Earth’s systems and weather and climate. Tips for scaling down,...
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In this lesson, students will use a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) database to identify extreme weather events throughout the United States in different locations or over time. Disciplinary core ideas covered are Earth’s sys...
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In this lesson, students will use weather data to create a current weather map by drawing station models for multiple locations. Disciplinary core ideas covered are Earth materials and systems and weather and climate. Tips for scaling down, scaling u...
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In this lesson, students will develop and analyze meteograms for select cities to construct a 24-hour history for a specific location. Disciplinary core ideas covered are Earth materials and systems and weather and climate. Tips for scaling down, sca...
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In this lesson, students will use flight take-off and landing patterns to better understand wind. Disciplinary core ideas covered are Earth materials and systems and weather and climate. Tips for scaling down, scaling up, and extending the lesson are...
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In this lesson, students will come to understand the range and frequency of behaviors in which animals can engage, and how those might be affected by factors such as weather conditions or time. Disciplinary core ideas covered are natural resources an...
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In this lesson, students will compare population dynamics in emerging and developed nations, including how those populations use natural resources. Disciplinary core ideas covered are Earth and human activity and natural resources. Tips for scaling d...
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In this lesson, students will explore long-term trends in land use using data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Disciplinary core ideas covered are natural resources and human impacts on Earth systems. Tips for scaling down, scaling up,...
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In this lesson, students will determine whether there is a correlation between drought and wildfires using data from two states. Disciplinary core ideas covered are the roles of water in Earth’s surface processes and natural hazards. Tips for scali...
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In this lesson, students will explore the relationship between earthquake depth and tectonic plate boundaries. Disciplinary core ideas covered are Earth materials and systems and plate tectonics and large-scale system interactions. Tips for scaling d...
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In this lesson, students will learn about the radiation levels in their state and county and compare them to levels in two other states. Teaching about radon addresses a safety issue and relates to content knowledge about radiation and geology. Disci...
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In this lesson, students will develop a model that illustrates that the tectonic plates are moving in different directions on Earth’s surface. Disciplinary core ideas covered are Earth materials and systems and plate tectonics and large-scale syste...
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In this lesson, students will explore volcanoes in the United States and relate them to tectonic plates in Earth’s crust. Disciplinary core ideas covered are Earth materials and systems and plate tectonics and large-scale system interactions. Tips ...
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In this lesson, students will use buoy data to determine the relationship between wind speed and wave height. Disciplinary core ideas covered are Earth materials and systems and the roles of water in Earth’s surface processes. Tips for scaling down...
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Dissolved Oxygen and Water Quality
In this lesson, students will explore the relationship between water temperature and dissolved oxygen. Disciplinary core ideas covered are natural resources and Earth’s systems. Tips for scaling down, scaling up, and extending the lesson are includ...
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In this lesson, students will explore how oceans mitigate climate at midlatitudes. Disciplinary core ideas covered are the roles of water in Earth’s surface processes and weather and climate. Tips for scaling down, scaling up, and extending the les...
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In this lesson, students will explore the relationship between the ocean tides and the cycles of the Moon. Disciplinary core ideas covered are the roles of water in Earth’s surface processes and Earth materials and systems. Tips for scaling down, s...
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In this lesson, students will see how photoperiods change during a year, at locations at different latitudes. Disciplinary core ideas covered are Earth and the solar system and Earth’s systems. Tips for scaling down, scaling up, and extending the l...