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Virtual Storm Chase: Bringing the Atmospheric Sciences to Life Through an Interactive Case Study
An in-class case study is presented for use in a liberal arts core extreme weather course, designed to foster science literacy, appreciation, and critical thinking skills in nonscience majors....
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Case Study: The Chef Returns: A Recipe for Writing Great Case Studies
This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. This issue provides a recipe for writing great case studies....
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This article examines teacher justifications and student perceptions about active learning....
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A look at the influence of graduate teaching assistants' teaching behaviors on student achievement in a research-based undergraduate science course....
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Research and Teaching: Growing a Learning Assistant Program: Using Perceptions to Inform Improvement
The authors describe a study used to gather learning assistant and faculty member perceptions to understand if programmatic goals of learning assistant programs are being met....
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This article focuses on the use of, and perceptions about, PowerPoint in undergraduate introductory biology classes to understand how PowerPoint composition can best promote student learning....
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Not everyone lives in close proximity to an ocean, but everyone on the planet is affected by these massive bodies of water. Learn how changes in our oceans are affecting biodiversity, sea levels, and the climate with the articles found in this issue...
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Science and Children—January 2019
The concept of problem-based learning has been vigorously applied in the classroom and touted as a panacea to the traditional curriculum. This month, we take on PBL in all its iterations to share practical and applicable teaching methods and learnin...
eBook
Available for Pre-order. This publication will be released in OCTOBER 2018...
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Ocean Acidification Investigation
Introduce a weak acid into a container of shells and water to help students understand the effects of ocean acidification....
Interactive E-book Kids
Kat is a student paleontologist who uses a video chat app to communicate with readers during her expedition to visit a paleontological site in the desert of Egypt. She wants to figure out how a fossil fish came to exist at this site. Readers help Kat...
Interactive E-book Kids
This e-book is based on the natural phenomenon that any group of plants or animals will demonstrate individual variation that allows scientists to distinguish between members of the group. In order to explore this phenomenon, we follow the journey o...
Interactive E-book Kids
Help Me Grow is an interactive book where readers enter a forest to see how four different animals raise their young. Interactivities and questions guide readers to explore patterns and make decisions to give the young animals a better chance of surv...