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Model-Based Inquiry in Biology: Three-Dimensional Instructional Units for Grades 9-12 (e-book)
This book is your chance to shift the emphasis of your high school biology curriculum away from “we need to learn about this topic in order to do well in class” to “we need to figure out why or how things happen in the world.” Using the book�...
NSTA Press Book
Model-Based Inquiry in Biology: Three-Dimensional Instructional Units for Grades 9-12
This book is your chance to shift the emphasis of your high school biology curriculum away from “we need to learn about this topic in order to do well in class” to “we need to figure out why or how things happen in the world.” Using the book�...
By Ron Gray, Todd Campbell
Book Chapter
Model-Based Inquiry in Biology: Three-Dimensional Instructional Units for Grades 9-12 (Book Sample)
This book is your chance to shift the emphasis of your high school biology curriculum away from “we need to learn about this topic in order to do well in class” to “we need to figure out why or how things happen in the world.” Using the book�...
Web Seminar
The Shell Science Lab Regional Challenge Competition recognizes exceptional and innovative science educators for their exemplary approaches to science lab instruction utilizing limited school and laboratory resources. The competition also raises awar...
Web Seminar
Shell Science Teaching Award: This award recognizes one outstanding classroom science teacher (K–12) who has had a positive impact on his or her students, school, and community through exemplary classroom science teaching. K–12 classroo...
Web Seminar
This interactive web seminar will begin with an overview of safety protocols specific for doing secondary-level safer science/STEM laboratory activities. The presenters will be Dr. Ken Roy, NSTA and NSELA Safety Compliance Advisor/Specialist and Dire...
Web Seminar
This interactive web seminar will begin with an overview of safety protocols specific for doing elementary-level safer science/STEM classroom/laboratory activities. Dr. Ken Roy, NSTA and NSELA Safety Compliance Advisor/Specialist and Director of Envi...
Journal Article
Exploring Phenomena That Connect Science, Self, and Society
By Julie H. Yu and Michelle L. Phillips
Journal Article
Using Connected Learning Principles to Foster Authentic STEM Research Experiences Remotely
By Erica M. Staehling, Hannah R. Hiester, and Barbara M. Shoplock
Journal Article
By Marta Stoeckel, Angela Peterson, Lisa Ortmann, and Gillian Roehrig
Journal Article
In the information age, the acquisition of data literacy skills has become increasingly important for undergraduate student success, yet these skills are not emphasized in the lecture setting. Here we present a study to inspire educators to scaffold ...
By Emily G. Weigel and Aakanksha Angra
Journal Article
Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) represent an economical and practical way for institutions to equitably offer research experiences to large numbers of students. Although the benefits of CUREs are well documented, most CURE mod...
By Elizabeth A. Majka, Kyle F. Bennett, Thomas P. Sawyer, Jon L. Johnson, and Merrilee F. Guenther
Journal Article
Although undergraduate research experience has proven to have positive effects on student outcomes, such opportunities are not always widely available. Options can be especially limited for early-career engineering students who have limited research ...
By Ethan S. Quinn, Brian Sylcott, Nathaneal T. Green, Joi P. Walker, and Robert M. Hughes
Journal Article
Science Assessments as a Learning Opportunity
Feedback best practices support timely, high-quality feedback with application opportunity. Multiple attempts on assessments support learning gains. A learning management system can be used to automatically provide feedback for application on a futur...
By Emily Faulconer and John Griffith
Journal Article
Project-based learning (PBL) research is shown to improve students’ higher-order thinking skills. In this article, we describe an adaptation of the PBL model that is suitable for colleges with limited science, technology, engineering, and mathemati...
By Ilirian Dhimitruka and Geetha Surendran
Journal Article
Exploring the Role of Student Seating Preference and Performance in a Large Introductory STEM Course
Most introductory courses are held in large lecture halls, with students typically sitting in either the front, middle, or back of the classroom. In a mixed-methods study of student attendance, performance, and seat choice, we found that students who...
By Chloe Wasendorf, Audrey McCombs, and Nancy Boury
Journal Article
Impacts of a Prerequisite Online Laboratory Course
In response to remote learning needs during the COVID-19 pandemic, introductory lecture and laboratory courses typically delivered fully in person were offered in a completely virtual format for the first time. Introductory laboratory courses are piv...
By Elizabeth V. Jones, Michael Evans, and Carrie Shepler
Journal Article
Teaching Green Chemistry Through Student-Generated Open Educational Resources
This article describes the implementation of a student-generated open educational resource project into a majors’ organic chemistry laboratory. This scaffolded semester-long project was organized into six phases and designed to promote the goals of...
By Krystal Grieger and Alexey Leontyev
Journal Article
Issues of Question Equivalence in Online Exam Pools
During the pandemic, the use of question pools for online testing was recommended to mitigate cheating, exposing multitudes of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students across the globe to this practice. Yet instructors may be...
By Cody Goolsby-Cole, Sarah M. Bass, Liz Stanwyck, Sarah Leupen, Tara S. Carpenter, and Linda C. Hodges
Journal Article
Making Lab Group Work Equitable and Inclusive
The collaborative nature of introductory college science labs means that labs can play a major role in boosting students’ interest in experimental science when they work together in small groups. However, collaboration in lab courses is not always ...
By Danny Doucette and Chandralekha Singh
Journal Article
Use of Interrupted Case Studies to Promote Argumentation in Chemistry
There has been an increase in the number of studies about educational scenarios aimed at promoting argumentation. Special attention is given to scenarios involving case studies. In this article, we report on the application of an interrupted case stu...
By Salete Linhares Queiroz, Mikeas Silva de Lima, and Douglas Gomes Lima dos Santos