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This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about Newton’s First Law. Activities include Objects at Rest and Staying at Rest. ...
Book Chapter
This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about Newton’s First Law. Activities include Objects in Motion, Galileo Explains It All, Sheep in a Jeep, With Coinage, and Evaluation. ...
Book Chapter
This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about forces. Activities include Changes in Motion and What Causes Them and Evaluation....
Book Chapter
This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about Newton’s Second Law. Activities include How Are These Things Related?, Newton’s Second Bit of Advice for All of Us, Second Law Balloons, and Evaluat...
Book Chapter
This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about gravity. Activities include Gravity on a Roll, Gravity—An Equal Opportunity Force, and Falling Pieces of Metal....
Book Chapter
This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about mass and weight. The activity in this chapter is Mass and Weight....
NSTA Press Book
Hard-to-Teach Science Concepts: A Framework to Support Learners, Grades 3–5
Authors Susan Koba and Carol Mitchell introduce teachers of grades 3–5 to their conceptual framework for successful instruction of hard-to-teach science concepts. Their methodology comprises four steps: (1) engage students about their preconception...
By Susan B. Koba with Carol T. Mitchell
eBook
Even More Brain-Powered Science: Teaching and Learning With Discrepant Events (e-book)
• How can water and a penny demonstrate the power of mathematics and molecular theory? • Do spelling and punctuation really matter to the human brain? ...
eBook
More Brain-Powered Science: Teaching and Learning With Discrepant Events (e-book)
• What can a chocolate chip cookie tell us about the Earth’s resources and the importance of environmental conservation? • How can a clear, colorless spray solution unveil a hidden message on a blank sign? ...
Book Chapter
This chapter from, Companion Classroom Activities for Stop Faking It! Force and Motion is about acceleration. Activities includes, Changing Motion, Accelerating, Acceleration or Not, and Evaluation. This free selection also includes the Table of Con...
Book Chapter
Introduction to Nanotechnology
Imagining differences in scale can be very easy (a softball is bigger than a baseball) or very difficult (how can we imagine the size of a galaxy?). It is perhaps most challenging to build conceptual frameworks for objects that are too small to see. ...
Book Chapter
Team Teaching Science at the High School Level
The focus of this chapter is the specific challenges of team teaching each individual discipline in the typical high school or secondary school. Although science curricula vary not only from state to state, but even district to district, there is gen...
Journal Article
Student Performances in Various Learning Protocols
A comparison was made between students' overall performance, as measured by overall grade, in different teaching and learning protocols. The data gathered indicate that students' conceptual learning is enhanced by the self-guided inquiry eBook and gr...
Journal Article
Favorite Demonstration: Learning the BCD-To-Seven-Segment Decoder By Counting Coins
This activity helps instructors to demonstrate a method of converting seven-bit binary numbers to decimal numbers and vice versa....
Journal Article
The GK–12 program offers graduate students unique teaching opportunities as students are paired with a teacher in a K–12 classroom. This article documents the benefits for teaching fellows in numerous areas, such as communication with various aud...
Journal Article
An Astronomical Misconceptions Survey
Misconceptions that students bring with them to the introductory science classroom are especially prevalent in astronomy. One way to identify and possibly dispel some of these misconceptions is through using a misconceptions survey. This article repo...
Journal Article
The Journal of College Teaching’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
Journal Article
Point of View: Teach Both Sides on Global Warming
This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. In this month’s issue the author encourages teachers to teach both sides of global warming, thus teaching students how to evaluate evidence and reco...
Journal Article
The Use of Mastery Learning With Competency-Based Grading in an Organic Chemistry Course
Mastery learning is an instructional method based on the idea that students learn best if they fully understand one concept before moving to the next and has been shown to be extremely effective in math and science curricula. Competency-based grading...
Journal Article
Strategies for the Introduction of Neuroscience for Underrepresented University Students
The University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez hosted a series of academic and applied neuroscience activities as part of a Brain Awareness Week (BAW). The study in this article explores the impact of the BAW events as a vehicle for advancing interest in and...
Journal Article
Using Google Earth to Teach the Magnitude of Deep Time
Most timeline analogies of geologic and evolutionary time are flawed, causing an understanding of relative time with little comprehension of absolute time. Using Google Earth, one can construct an ideal timeline analogy relative to a point in the cla...
Journal Article
Hot Under the Collar: Weighing the Dangers of a Weight-Loss Drug
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 goal of the case study is for students to expand their understanding of m...