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Journal Article
Ways to Include Global Climate Change in Courses for Prospective Teachers
What responsibility do science teacher educators have for engaging students in learning about global climate change in courses? How can the topic of global climate change be added to an already packed course curriculum? The authors have begun assembl...
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This article investigates how mastery of prerequisite course material impacts student learning in follow-on courses. To measure the importance of prerequisite skills, we compare the exam scores of students with a GPA of 3.0 or better in their multidi...
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Crossing Boundaries in Undergraduate Biology Education
In an effort to make mathematics relevant to biology students, the authors developed two modules that sought to integrate mathematics and ecology instruction to differing degrees. The modules were developed by a team of biology and mathematics educat...
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The Effect of Gender on Perception of Case Studies and Performance
The case study method of teaching uses real-world narratives to teach concepts and content. This method of teaching encourages active learning, which has been shown to have a positive effect on student performance in many disciplines including scienc...
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Point of View: Predictably Unpredictable
This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This month’s issue describes examples of challenging student behavior and provides ideas to help confront this type of behavior....
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Case Study: Student-Produced Videos for the Flipped Classroom
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 describes a way of building a library of student-produced videos to use in the f...
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This article reports on an investigation into the correlations between students’ understandings of introductory astronomy concepts and the correctness and coherency of their written responses to targeted Lecture-Tutorial questions....
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This study examined the development of peer mentoring skills and deepening of content knowledge by trained and supported undergraduate teaching assistants working with students in entry-level STEM courses across nine departments at a large research-i...
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This article explores how integrating computational tools into a general chemistry laboratory course can influence student perceptions of programming and investigates relationships among student perceptions, prior experience, and student outcomes....
Book Chapter
Understanding and Tracking the Daily Motion of the Sun
In this chapter, students will easily recognize the learning they do related to the disciplinary core ideas, specifically that shadows made by the Sun can be observed, described, predicted, and explained with models to reveal patterns of the Sun’s ...
Book Chapter
Understanding and Tracking the Annual Motion of the Sun and the Seasons
This chapter helps expand students’ thinking to how the apparent motion of the Sun in the sky changes throughout the year and the effects of those changes on the Earth, including the varying length of daytime and differences in the Sun’s height ...
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Solar Activity and Space Weather
This chapter only deals with the analysis of data as it relates to key phenomena on the Sun. It focuses on the sunspot cycle, space weather, and related concepts that are most accessible to middle school students. Only a subset of the concepts in the...
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The Sun, the Moon, and the Earth Together: Phases, Eclipses, and More
This chapter adds a third cycle of importance in astronomy (and human culture): the revolution of the Moon around the Earth. The chapter starts with a simple challenge for the students: putting a series of lunar photographs in order by the shape of t...