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Providing Opportunities for Argumentation in Science Exam Settings
This article explores undergraduates’ efforts to engage in scientific argumentation during exam settings....
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Integration, Authenticity, and Relevancy in College Science Through Engineering Design
An engineering design problem-solving framework was used to create a general chemistry lab activity focused on an important environmental issue—dead zones. Dead zones impact over 400 locations around the world and are a result of nutrient pollutio...
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Physics Meets Art in the General Education Core
This article describes a general education course offering, Physics and the Arts. During the development of this course, physics and arts faculty collaborated closely. Goals of the course are to increase students’ engagement with physics and to dev...
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Recruitment and retention in the sciences is both difficult and crucial, especially in the community college setting. In this study, the resources used by General Chemistry I students at two different public, predominantly two-year colleges in two s...
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Case Study: Skinny Genes? An Interdisciplinary Look at a Complex Behavioral Disorder
This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. This directed case study uses a progressive disclosure model to expose students to the multiple facet...
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Research and Teaching: Assessing the Effectiveness of Sustainability Learning
This study investigated the interaction of disciplinary and interdisciplinary learning in a team-taught, first-year, interdisciplinary sustainability course. We surveyed (pre/post) both STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and non...
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In this article, the authors describe their approach to flipping the General Chemistry sequence at two different colleges within the City University of New York, a large, urban public university system. Our results indicate that the flipped model le...
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Research and Teaching: Many Paths Toward Discovery: A Module for Teaching How Science Works
Improving students’ understanding of how science works requires explicit instruction. Here, the authors test the efficacy of a module based on two previously published activities (the Cube Puzzle and the case study Asteroids and Dinosaurs) that tea...
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This study describes the development and implementation of an iterative diagnostic and intervention routine designed to elicit and quantitatively describe aspects of student metacognition, affect, and study habits in a first-year undergraduate biolog...
Book Chapter
Beyond the Egg Drop: Infusing Engineering Into High School Physics (Book Sample)
Problem: You’re eager to expand your physics curriculum and engage your students with engineering content but you don’t know how. Solution: Use the approach and lessons in Beyond the Egg Drop to infuse engineering into what you’re already teach...
Book Chapter
In this activity, students are challenged to construct a cantilever that supports the greatest weight at the greatest distance from the edge of a desk using only the materials provided. This selection highlights the core engineering concepts of desig...
Book Chapter
Cards to the Sky Gummy Bear Tower
In this activity, students use playing cards to build a tower that can withstand wind such that gummy bears can stand on top of it. This selection highlights the core engineering concepts of design and analysis. It includes the Table of Contents, Pre...
Book Chapter
In this activity, students use tape, string, and 20 strands of spaghetti to build the tallest tower that will support one large marshmallow on top. This selection highlights the core engineering concept of design. It includes the Table of Contents, P...
Book Chapter
In this activity, students create a mathematical model to predict the time it will take for a soda can punctured with holes of different sizes to drain. This selection highlights the core engineering concept of models. It includes the Table of Conten...
Book Chapter
In this activity, students will predict and analyze how different materials will behave in a wind tube, then design and test a hovercraft that can stay in the wind tube for 10 seconds. This selection highlights the core engineering concepts of design...