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The purpose of this lab is to introduce students to the effects of predation and explain “Why Will the Characteristics of a Bug Population Change in Different Ways in Response to Different Types of Predation?” Students will also have an opportun...
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The purpose of this lab is for students to apply what they have learned about the theory of descent with modification to explain “Does Mammalian Brain Structure Support or Refute the Theory of Descent with Modification?“ This lab also gives stud...
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The purpose of this lab is to have students apply what they know about natural selection to explain the process of allopatric speciation and to discover “Why Does Geographic Isolation Lead to the Formation of a New Species?” It also gives stude...
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The purpose of this lab is for students to apply their understanding of evolutionary relationships or phylogeny to determine ”How Are Humans Related to Other Members of the Family Hominidae?” It also provides students with an opportunity to anal...
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The purpose of this lab is for students to apply their understanding of protein synthesis, descent with modification, and cladograms to identify “How Are Whales Related to Other Mammals?” They will also have an opportunity to access and use an...
NSTA Press Book
Introducing Teachers and Administrators to the NGSS: A Professional Development Facilitator's Guide
REVERE Award Finalist, PreK-12 Learning Group, Association of American Publishers!If you’re charged with helping educators achieve the vision of the new science standards, this is the professional development resource you need. This book is chock-f...
By Eric Brunsell, Deb M. Kneser, Kevin J. Niemi
eBook
If you’re charged with helping educators achieve the vision of the new science standards, this is the professional development resource you need. This book is chock-full of activities and useful advice for guiding teachers and administrators as the...
Journal Article
Getting More Scientists to Revamp Teaching
The rapid diffusion of clickers at their university leads the authors to propose that faculty development strategies may gain in being explicitly informed by both the scientists' most immediate needs as teachers and the findings from diffusion of inn...
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Pitching Environmental Science to Business Majors: Engaging Students in Renewable Energy Choices
This article describes an active learning strategy for engaging undergraduate business students, a group often ignored in scientific pedagogy, in learning about renewable energy technology and associated trade-offs...
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Integrating Vision and Change Into a Biology Curriculum at a Small Comprehensive College
The authors describe the process of curricular change that occurred in the Biology Department of Elmhurst College in the suburbs of Chicago. This 10-year process involved an update of the mission statement, revision of the lower level core course seq...
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Examples From the Trenches: Improving Student Learning in the Sciences Using Team-Based Learning
One method for reforming how college science is taught is shifting to a more student-centered collaborative instructional format using team-based learning (TBL). The purpose of this article is to describe the structure and implementation of TBL and t...
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Undergraduate Research and a Liberal Arts Education: Similar Goals, Similar Solutions
In this article the authors argue that the goals of a liberal arts education and undergraduate research are remarkably similar and that by incorporating an undergraduate research focus with a liberal arts approach in the classroom, instructors can mo...
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There are few instruments available that science educators can use to assess whether students can apply what they know about scientific practices to critique scientific media reports. In response to the need for valid, reliable, and informative asses...
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Although student production of arguments in group learning environments has been shown to promote scientific reasoning and understanding of science concepts, little previous work has examined the relationship of the structure of curricular materials ...
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The study described in this article aimed to quantify knowledge and misconceptions of evolutionary processes among upper level undergraduate students and analyze how knowledge and misconceptions changed throughout a semester-long, discussion-based co...
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This study explores the use of Photovoice as a pedagogical tool in two introductory undergraduate chemistry courses for nonscience majors....
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Point of View: The Need for Fieldwork in Science
The author makes a case for fieldwork as having a strong capacity for increasing both science and nonscience majors' abilities to learn complex concepts, with the added benefit of actively engaging minority and female students in science....
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This study evaluates the effectiveness of human anatomy software in face-to-face and online anatomy laboratory classes....
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Case Study: The Mystery of the Seven Deaths: A Case Study in Cellular Respiration
In this interrupted, problem-based case study, students explore the purpose of cellular respiration as they play the role of medical examiner, analyzing autopsy evidence to determine the mysterious cause of death for seven people....
Book Chapter
The activities in this chapter provide an introduction to the NGSS. Activity 1 allows educators to explore the progressions of NGSS to begin understanding the structure of NGSS....
Book Chapter
Facilitating Professional Development Using This Book
This chapter discusses how to use the book to plan professional development. It includes a description of two “strands” of work that schools need to engage in during the implementation process, provides guideposts for effective professional devel...
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This chapter identifies a series of challenging questions and issues that arise frequently during professional development related to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Through discussions, reflections, and workshop evaluations, we identif...
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This chapter provides suggestions for administrators as they consider how to lead and support implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). It’s important to remember that change happens in a very thoughtful, planned way. Implemen...
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Exploring the Practices and Crosscutting Concepts
This chapter provides a series of activities to help science teachers understand the three dimensions of the Framework for K–12 Science Education—science and engineering practices, crosscutting concepts, and disciplinary core ideas—and how they...
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Supporting Science Learning for All Students
This chapter includes activities that explore the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Appendix D, “All Standards, All Students” and the case studies included with that appendix. These classroom case studies describe instructional approaches ...
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Fostering Discussion About Curricular Decisions
This chapter focuses on beginning discussions related to curricular decisions including course mapping, designing essential questions and performance assessments, and using the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) to plan units of instruction. Th...
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Connecting NGSS and the Common Core State Standards
This chapter introduces educators to the connections between the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in both mathematics and English language arts. The activities provided here will allow participants t...