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Favorite Demonstration: Using Calcium and Calcium Binding Proteins To Teach Signal Transduction in Cell Physiology—Demonstrating Conformational Changes of Proteins Using the Simple yet Powerful Technique of PAGE

This exercise teaches students science by demonstrating the ability of calmodulin to bind and lose calcium with attendant alterations in protein conformation. To visualize conformation changes using the simple yet powerful technique PAGE provides stu...

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How to Make Nonscience Majors More Receptive to Organic Chemistry: Building Student Intrigue in Chemistry—Brooklyn College’s “Stories-Behind-the-Story” Strategy

Stories of crime and punishment serve as the impetus for engaging students in science topics as part of a unique approach to teaching chemistry at Brooklyn College. This article describes a successful approach used to help students appreciate the maj...

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The Case Study: Return to Mars—How Not to Teach a Case Study

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 considers some of the common mistakes case study instrutors make....

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SCST: Distance Learning—Meeting Our Educational Responsibilities with Technology

In this column the leadership of the Society for College Science Teaching (SCST) shares its views with JCST readers. This month’s issue focuses on the concerns of meeting our educational responsibilities with technology....

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A Running Inquiry—Nature Asked the Questions During This Jog: Discovering in a Maine Forest a “Call of the Wild”

This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. In this month’s issue, during a morning jog, the author vowed to interact with nature along the jogging path of the Maine forest in the context of d...

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Research and Teaching: Small Group Instruction in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology—A Discipline Status Report and a Teaching Agenda for the Future

This paper is an attempt to place the recent flurry of activity into context for SMET faculty. It contains nearly 100 resources which may be useful to researchers, theorists, and practitioners in this area. The resources will be particularly helpful ...