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Teacher's Toolkit: Scientific Explanations and Arguments: Understanding Their Nature Through Historical Examples

This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. This month’s issue discusses explanation and argument....

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Tried and True: Classroom Zoo: Practicing Ethical Research on Animals

This column provides classic demonstrations and experiments with a new twist. This month’s issue discusses how to responsibly conduct scientific research....

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Scope on Safety: Safety in Videos

This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue addresses safety issues that accompany the increased access to and use of experiments found in videos....

Middle School Instructional Materials Lesson Plans Safety

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Scope on the Skies: Comet of the Century?

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses comets....

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What Happens When You Flip a Switch?

A series of hands-on activities to help students understand what energy is and how we generate it....

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Physics Portfolios

Students submit essays and pictures at the end of a unit of study to show real-life examples of the unit's physics concepts....

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Rethinking Failure

When getting it wrong can increase students' chances for getting it right....

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Toying Around

A seemingly simple pull toy can open students' eyes to the nature of science....

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Inexpensive Equipment for the Physics Classroom

How to construct a ramp and five labs that make use of it....

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Editor's Corner: Physics Instruction in the Era of the NGSS

The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....

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Science 2.0: Gamify AP Biology

This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue interviews a biology teacher who has created video screencasts for his "flipped" classes and recently reinvented his Advanced Placement Biology course using game mechanics....

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The New Teacher's Toolbox: Finding Funding and Securing Swag

This column shares tips for teachers just beginning their career. This month’s issue offers tips for finding funding and free equipment for the science classroom....

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Career of the Month: An Interview With Microscopist Hari Shroff

This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue highlights a microscopist career....

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Health Wise: Pushing Caffeine to Teens

This Q&A style column provides up-to-date information on current health topics—helping students (and teachers) make healthy choices. In this month’s issue students become more aware of caffeine in their diets....

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Safer Science: Choose Biological Stains Carefully

This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses biological stains....

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The Green Room: Why Care About Wetlands?

This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue offers activities to help students learn about wetlands....

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Implementing Pedagogical Change in Introductory Biology Courses Through the Use of Faculty Learning Communities

This article discusses the implementation of student-centered learning in introductory biology classses that is being facilitated by the use of faculty learning communities....

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Scientists' and Teachers' Perspectives About Collaboration

The authors recently completed a six-year regional project that used several approaches to develop scientist-teacher relationships. At the conclusion 38 scientists and teachers were brought together to reflect on their experiences, which are describe...

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Transformative Research-Based Pedagogy Workshops for Chemistry Graduate Students and Postdocs

This article discusses one-day professional development workshops for graduate students and postdocs. The workshop introduced strong instructional approaches, established the importance of theory, and introduced novel pedagogic structures....

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Online Reading Informs Classroom Instruction and Promotes Collaborative Learning

This article describes an online annotation tool that was tested in two biology courses: intermediate-level Molecular Biology and upper level Cancer Biology....

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Reforming an Undergraduate Environmental Science Course for Nonscience Majors

This article discusses the key components of a reform-based introductory undergraduate environmental science course for nonscience majors and elementary teacher candidates as well as the impact of such components on the participants....

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Light, Brain, and Action: An Introductory, Interdisciplinary Course on Optogenetics for Undergraduate Students

This article discusses a semester-long interdisciplinary science course using recently developed optogenetic technique as a main context. This technique provides an engaging modern context for studying and connecting various fundamental concepts and ...

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Research and Teaching: Blooming, SOLO Taxonomy, and Phenomenography as Assessment Strategies in Undergraduate Science Education

This article discusses three alternative approaches to assessment of exam responses in an undergraduate biochemistry course....

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Research and Teaching: An Investigation of the Evolution of High School and Undergraduate Student Researchers' Understanding of Key Science Ethics Concepts

In this article high school and undergraduate research students were surveyed over a 10-week period of their summer research programs to investigate their understanding of key concepts in science ethics....

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Editorial: Rattled on the Reviewing Stand

The Journal of College Science Teaching’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....

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Two-Year Community: Exploring Student Engagement in an Introductory Biology Course

For this article the authors explored the ideas of engagement and place at a midsize community college. We found that students have thoughtful opinions about each and are frustrated with some aspects of our current instruction. This article provides ...

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Case Study: Revising a Formal Case Study Presentation as an Independent Research Project

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 author discusses creating case study presentations and independent resear...