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Journal Article
Self-Directed Learning With Feedback
This article describes a weekly writing assignment named SelFeed (Self-Directed Learning with Feedback), in which students are asked to identify their own questions relevant to the lecture content and provide logical answers....
Journal Article
Integrating Technology in Today’s Undergraduate Classrooms: A Look at Students’ Perspectives
The authors present the findings of a small-scale study of student opinions drawn from an anonymous and voluntary survey in an undergraduate science classroom. The survey questions focused on the use of basic tools in a college classroom. The tools i...
Journal Article
This study involved a scientific research competency module taught to the first-year premedical student in a 6-year premedical–medical program at an overseas U.S. medical school....
Journal Article
Research and Teaching: Teaching Students How to Check Their Work While Solving Problems in Genetics
An essential component skill of monitoring and reflection during problem solving is work checking, a process used by experts while solving problems to determine if their solution is achieving the goal. The results of work checking may reveal errors o...
Journal Article
At the authors' public liberal arts institution, biology masters students are required to enroll in BIOL 5050: Teaching Techniques. Course topics include designing effective lectures, assessment, classroom management, diversity in the classroom, and ...
Journal Article
Research and Teaching: Reenvisioning the Introductory Science Course as a Cognitive Apprenticeship
Introductory science courses play a critical role in the recruitment and retention of undergraduate science majors. In particular, first-year courses are opportunities to engage students in scientific practices and motivate them to consider scientif...
Journal Article
This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This month’s issue discusses the importance of the insights that are gained through neuroscience research....
Journal Article
Case Study: What Makes a Good Case, Revisited: The Survey Monkey Tells All
This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. In this month’s issue the authors provide a more definitive answer to the “What Makes a Good Case...
eBook
Quiet as a Butterfly: I Wonder Why (e-book)
“One day I listened. I listened to all the sounds I heard. I listened and I wondered.” From a clock’s ticks in the morning to a father’s snores at night, sounds are everywhere. That’s what an attentive boy discovers as he listens his way...
eBook
Fragrant as a Flower: I Wonder Why (e-book)
Follow your nose! This book invites you to learn what your sense of smell can teach you as you amble around town. Go along as a little boy listens to his dad’s tale about taking in the deliciousness of a pastry shop, the woodsy smells of a lumberya...
eBook
Learning to Read the Earth and Sky: Explorations Supporting the NGSS, Grades 6–12 (e-book)
Is it time to refresh the way you think about teaching Earth science? Learning to Read the Earth and Sky is the multifaceted resource you need to bring authentic science—and enthusiasm—into your classroom. It offers inspiration for reaching beyon...
eBook
Look and See: I Wonder Why (e-book)
This lively book’s title makes the perfect motto for young scientists: Look and see! With the help of charming text and bright pictures, you learn just how much you can use your sense of sight. Toys and tools, birds and bugs, flowers and fish, and ...
eBook
Next Time You See a Cloud (e-book)
Next time you want to see a show, go outside and look at the sky. The clouds will put on a show for you with their ever-changing shapes and sizes. This book reveals some fascinating science behind these beautiful displays. Author Emily Morgan answers...
eBook
From Flower to Fruit will transform curious readers - children and adults - into budding botanists. The book draws you in with the twin charms of rich illustrations and an engaging narrative. But this is more than just a pretty storybook. It spar...
eBook
Notable Notebooks: Scientists and Their Writings (e-book)
Named an Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students K-12!...
Interactive E-book
Different rocks have different mineral compositions and different textures. Observing and documenting these differences provide insight into a rock’s larger geologic context and natural setting. Observations of rocks can tell us about the processes...
Interactive E-book
The Gravity and Orbits Interactive E-book* investigates concepts related to Earth’s universal gravitation and how gravity affects the universe around us. All objects that have mass have a gravitational force and every object exerts a gravitational ...
Interactive E-book
The Plate Tectonics Interactive E-book* explores the materials that make up Earth and the processes they undergo, providing a framework for understanding how continents are created and changed over time. Earth is not a static planet. Rather, Earth is...
Interactive E-book Student Edition
Gravity and Orbits (Student Edition)
The Gravity and Orbits Interactive E-book* investigates concepts related to Earth’s universal gravitation and how gravity affects the universe around us. All objects that have mass have a gravitational force and every object exerts a gravitational ...
Interactive E-book Student Edition
Different rocks have different mineral compositions and different textures. Observing and documenting these differences provide insight into a rock’s larger geologic context and natural setting. Observations of rocks can tell us about the processes...
Interactive E-book Student Edition
Heredity and Variation (Student Edition)
The Heredity and Variation Interactive E-book* explores patterns of inheritance and discusses how offspring can look similar to their parents yet still possess differences within their genetic code. These differences can sometimes affect (positively ...
Interactive E-book Student Edition
Force and Motion (Student Edition)
The Force and Motion Interactive E-book* explores the effects of forces on the motion of objects for both a conceptual and real-world understanding, using common, observable examples, like running, billiards, and motion of vehicles. Learn about conce...
Interactive E-book Student Edition
Interdependence of Life (Student Edition)
Interdependence of Life explores the interactions between organisms and the environments in which they live—Earth spheres, ecosystems, abiotic factors, biotic factors, populations characteristics, limiting factors, and carrying capacity—as well a...
Interactive E-book Student Edition
Nature of Light (Student Edition)
The Nature of Light Interactive E-book* explains the characteristics of light, discusses the concept of light as waves, explores the idea of light and color, and ultimately answers the question, "What is light?" Topics covered include reflection and ...
Interactive E-book Student Edition
Nutrition is an interdisciplinary subject. To maintain a healthy lifestyle, individuals need to make informed decisions about personal nutrition, taking into account information about cells, body systems, energy, matter, and molecules. The Nutrition ...
Interactive E-book Student Edition
Science of Food Safety (Student Edition)
Bacteria live in close association with humans. Bacteria are masters at exploiting a variety of niches in the human body. Most of these bacteria are harmless to the human body and many are important in assisting its normal, healthy functioning. Disea...
Interactive E-book Student Edition
The Universe Interactive E-book* explores how the organization of stars and galaxies comprise a universe and how research scientists use specialized instruments to collect data about stars and galaxies. This Enhanced E-book takes a closer look at our...
Interactive E-book Student Edition
Solar System (Student Edition)
The Solar System Interactive E-book* explores what we know about our solar system’s planets, moons, and other celestial bodies. This e-book focuses on asteroids, comets, meteorites, and each of the eight planets in our solar system, including their...
Interactive E-book Student Edition
Atomic Structure (Student Edition)
By asking questions, conducting investigations, and interpreting results, scientists now have a better understanding of what makes up the smallest unit of matter that has properties of an element. The Atomic Structure Interactive E-book* uses investi...
Interactive E-book Student Edition
Cell Structure and Function (Student Edition)
The Cell Structure and Function Interactive E-book* explores how cells, the basic building blocks of all organisms, function as systems of organelles and associated structures in a dynamic equilibrium between their internal and external environments....
Interactive E-book Student Edition
Cell Division and Differentiation (Student Edition)
Cells carry on the many functions needed to sustain life, including cell growth and development. The genetic information encoded in DNA molecules provides instructions for assembling protein molecules, which are both necessary for producing more cell...