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Incorporate computational thinking into your classroom as students redevelop a fictional city....
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Editor’s Corner: Phenomenal Science
The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue....
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Focus on Physics: The Delightful Addition of Colored Lights
This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. This article describes how you can produce such colorful shadows for students and the general public in your classroom or an auditorium....
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Science 2.0: Organizing a Bit of the Google Ecosystem
This column shares web tools that support learning. This issue shares a list of tips to help optimize some of the most common Google interactions students have throughout the day....
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The Green Room: Waste Management
This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This issue discusses waste production and management....
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Career of the Month: Astronomer
This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This issue describes Percy Gomez's career path to becoming an astronomer....
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Right to the Source: Cemeteries
Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress. This issue discusses a 1914 stereographic image of a cemetery....
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Course-Based Support for Peer-Led Study Group Facilitators in a Large Instructional Team
To improve communication within the instructional workforce of a large organic chemistry course, students must take a required course for all undergraduate peer-led study groups (PLSG) facilitators and peer tutors hired by the Science Learning Center...
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Evolution in Student Perceptions of a Flipped Classroom in a Computer Programming Course
In this article the “flipped classroom” pedagogical approach is used for a combined undergraduate and graduate computer programming course in meteorology. Details of how the course was flipped are discussed, as well as how student perceptions of...
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Science and Community Engagement: Connecting Science Students With the Community
In this article the authors describe a course on science outreach that was developed as part of our college’s goal that all students participate in a meaningful community engagement experience. The Science & Community Engagement course provides a w...
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The Role of Faculty in Fostering STEM Transfer Student Success
In 2012 Eckerd College received a grant from the National Science Foundation to create a scholarship program for transfer students majoring in one of the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors offered at Eckerd. This article ...
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Breaking Down Barriers: A Bridge Program Helps First-Year Biology Students Connect With Faculty
Summer bridge programs aim to build social connections for first-year students to ease their transition into college, yet few studies have reported on bridge programs successfully leading to these outcomes. The authors backward designed a summer brid...
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Student and Faculty Views on Process of Science Skills at a Large, Research-Intensive University
The Association of American Colleges and Universities ranks multiple process of science (POS) skills among the top-10 skills employers seek in college graduates. As part of an effort to explore and align the emphasis on POS skills in our science dep...
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Students’ Understanding and Perceptions of Assigned Team Roles in a Classroom Laboratory Environment
Using a cooperative learning framework in a quantitative reasoning laboratory course, students were assigned to static teams of four in which they adopted roles that rotated regularly. The roles included: team leader, protocol manager, data recorder,...