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Creating Professional Development Opportunities
Even if your school does not require one, it’s important for you to have your own plan for continuing education. You can begin by generating a list of what you want to learn. Perhaps it is science-related content, or maybe it’s a teaching strateg...
Book Chapter
When students think of cold weather, they often think of mittens, snowflakes, and penguins! In this chapter, celebrate those tuxedo-clad birds that have come to symbolize winter and provides students with the opportunity to investigate adaptations th...
Book Chapter
Earth is an extremely complex system with many components and subsystems, and they all interact and affect each other. The four major subsystems are atmosphere (air), lithosphere (land), hydrosphere (water), and biosphere (life). A change in one part...
Book Chapter
Global warming is happening now, and scientists have evidence that humans are to blame. The rate of warming in the past 50 years has doubled, and temperatures are certain to go up even more. To gain an understanding of how global warming might impact...
Journal Article
Self-Monitoring Tools and Student Academic Success: When Perception Matches Reality
This study investigates the effectiveness of use of self-assessment and post-exam reflection forms as cognitive feedback and additional self-regulated learning strategies students can use to achieve a positive outcome on exams....
Journal Article
This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This month’s issue discusses the importance of physiology education....
Journal Article
The authors implemented peer instruction in an introductory level conceptual physics course for nonscience majors and found no correlation with course grade. They did notice moderate correlation between answering a conceptual question correctly prior...
Journal Article
A Case of Reform: The Undergraduate Research Collaboratives
In this report the authors include brief descriptions of five undergraduate research collaboratives and discuss their common components and the variety of implementation strategies. They also examine the impacts of early research on students, faculty...
Journal Article
Personal Response Systems and Learning: It Is the Pedagogy That Matters, Not the Technology
This study investigated whether using clickers in conjunction with lecture tutorials yields higher student learning gains than using only lecture tutorials. The results suggest that the clickers do not lead to additional learning gains....
Journal Article
Case Study: Resistance Is Futile ... or Is it? The Immunity System and HIV Infection
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 case study uses an interrupted progressive disclosure format, during whic...
Journal Article
This article describes the mobilization, planning, and implementation of a first-year interdiciplinary course for STEM majors that integrates key concepts found in traditional first-semester biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, and phys...
Journal Article
This article describes an academic-year Research Experiences for Undergraduates program targeted at underrepresented students within the University of Hawaii system, shows how it is aligned with best practices for broadening participation, and presen...
Journal Article
To expose students to critical analysis of media and emphasize the nature of science, we required them to access scientific reports and participate in mandatory peer discussions. The vast majority of students indicated that online peer-discussion for...
Journal Article
This article describes engaging students in two simple observations to address the concepts of changes of states, heat, temperature, and molecular potential and kinetic energy....
Journal Article
Assessing General Education Science Courses: A Portfolio Approach
The work presented in this article represents one in-depth example of the integration of portfolio assessment into the standard assessment practices of a general education course for nonscience majors....
NSTA Press Book
Teaching Science Through Trade Books
“‘What was your favorite book as a child?’ In more than 10 years of facilitating workshops, we have never heard anyone reply, ‘My fourth-grade science textbook.’ Clearly, textbooks have an important place in the science classroom, but usin...
By Christine Anne Royce, Emily Morgan, Karen Ansberry
eBook
Teaching Science Through Trade Books (e-book)
“‘What was your favorite book as a child?’ In more than 10 years of facilitating workshops, we have never heard anyone reply, ‘My fourth-grade science textbook.’ Clearly, textbooks have an important place in the science classroom, but usin...
eBook
Everyday Engineering: Putting the E in STEM Teaching and Learning (e-book)
“The idea for Everyday Engineering began with our interest in design and production issues related to the simple ballpoint pen. We were struck by the elegance of the means for retracting the reservoir and transferring the ink to paper …. For some...
Book Chapter
Resurrection Plant: Making Science Come Alive!
An inanimate, seemingly dead, 3–5 in. ball-shape brown object placed in water and exposed to sunlight is observed to “come back alive” and turn into a vibrant green photosynthetic plant over a period of anywhere from several hours to one day...
Book Chapter
Toothbrush Design—Is There A Better Bristle?
What kind of toothbrush do you use—manual or electric? What is the shape of the head and the handle? Could you describe the firmness and the layout of the bristles? Or count the number of bristles? In this 5E Model lesson, students explore various ...
Book Chapter
Historical Use of Trade Books in the Science Classroom
“Teaching Through Trade Books” is a column that has appeared monthly in Science and Children since January 2003. It highlights the science and literacy connections that can be made with children’s literature and provides readers with “novel�...
Book Chapter
In today’s electronic age of video games and MP3 players, children are not spending as much time outdoors as past generations did. Many fear that as a result children are becoming increasingly alienated from the natural world. The lessons in this c...
Book Chapter
We often gloss over the history of science—the women and men who have made advancements in the area of scientific discovery. These notable individuals are the backbone of our field. In the activities, in the chapter, the authors honor these scienti...
Book Chapter
Your students are most likely not knowledgeable about the raw materials, the design processes, and the technology involved in manufacturing the products they use everyday. Making connections with local manufacturers can connect students to the real s...
Book Chapter
“Is it time yet?” is a cry heard from many a student’s mouth. Is it time for lunch? Is it time to go home? Is it time for recess? Is it time for science? (we can always hope)… and the list can go on and on. Students often equate time with an ...
Book Chapter
From the youngest ages children construct buildings, bridges, towers, and anything else that comes to mind using a variety of materials. The books and activities, in this chapter, take this interest in construction and build on it by allowing student...