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By Kirsten D. Edwards, Amelia Wenk Gotwals, and Tanya S. Wright
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Student-Constructed Weather Instruments Facilitate Scientific Inquiry
Students in introductory college science courses often have a simplified understanding of the scientific method. To introduce students to the complexity of the scientific process and the value of empirical observations, I implemented a semesterlong...
By Cindy Shellito
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A Team-Taught Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminar With a Focus on Blood
First-Year Seminars (FYS) offer a unique mode of introducing college students to new topics, research practices, and approaches to learning that they may not have been exposed to in high school. In this article, we outline the successes and challen...
By Adele J. Wolfson and Justin Armstrong
Journal Article
Chemical mnemonic devices have been designed to aid students in understanding chemical concepts in previous years. This has been done for concepts such as oxyanions, ozonolysis, tautomerization mechanisms in organic chemistry, and writing reactions o...
By Angela L. Mahaffey
Journal Article
Evaluating Information: The Impact of Major, Class Standing, and Experience With Primary Literature
Social media platforms and other internet sites may propagate inaccurate or misleading information. This misinformation encourages speculation, rumors, and mistrust in established science. In the current study, we attempted to determine whether bio...
By Shawn Stover and Michelle Mabry
Web Seminar
Archive: Science Update: Hubble's 30th Anniversary, April 29, 2020
The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was launched into Earth orbit on 24 April 1990 by the Space Shuttle. A flaw in the primary mirror initially made it look destined to be a historic failure. Space-walking astronauts made repairs and upgrades on five mi...
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Tell the story of an important event that happened in your family. Tell the story of a place that is important to your family. Tell the story of how your family or the world will change in 10 years....
By Carrie Tzou, Daniel Rother, Ashley Braun, Elizabeth Starks, Meixi Ng, Enrique Suárez, Amanda Rambayon, Philip Bell, Don LaBonte, Amy Twito, Shawn Peterson, Sara Marie Ortiz, and Megan Bang
Journal Article
The Wings Over Water (WOW) collaboration began with ospreys....
By Allison De Jong, Jenélle Dowling, Erick Greene, and Sharon Leigh Miles
Journal Article
Building Community With Educators
After a string of successes in our teacher professional development programs at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS), I recently began to notice a disconcerting trend: Teachers stopped coming. Despite efforts to draw program participant...
By Robert Payo
Journal Article
By Byung-Yeol Park, Laura Rodriguez, and Todd Campbell