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Teaching Students to Observe Their World

By Danna Bell

Biology Literacy Teaching Strategies

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Entomologist Ary Faraji

By Luba Vangelova

High School Biology Careers Life Science

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Let’s Clear the Air

By Nancy Nasr

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For Your Eyes Only

By Zeynep Gonca Akdemir, Muhsin Menekse, Mahdi Hosseini, Arindam Nandi, and Keiichiro Furuya

High School Computer Science Labs Physics

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Using Student-Generated Questions to Investigate Chemical Reactions

By Hilary Gawne

High School Chemistry Labs NGSS Science and Engineering Practices

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Sparking a Movement

By Matthew D. Stilwell, Chunhua Yao, Dale Vajko, Kelly Jeffery, Douglas Powell, Xudong Wang, and Anne Lynn Gillian-Daniel

High School Chemistry Crosscutting Concepts Engineering Interdisciplinary Labs NGSS Physical Science Physics Science and Engineering Practices STEM

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Ecosystem in a Jar

By Emily Cizmas

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The Survival Games

By Gabriela E. Rodriguez, Zainab Shoda, Hannah R. Assour, Vanessa Fischer, and Janelle M. Bailey

Middle School High School Biology Climate Change Environmental Science Inquiry Life Science Teaching Strategies

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Field Trips Last a Lifetime

By Chris Anderson

High School Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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The Bohr Model of the Atom

By Paul G. Hewitt

High School Physical Science Physics

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A Window to the Wild

By Jill Nugent

High School Citizen Science Earth & Space Science Instructional Materials

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Teacher Spotlight: Steve Metz

High School Pre-service Teachers Careers Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Taking the Office Hour Out of the Office

Science classrooms across our campus have changed dramatically over the past 10 years as an increasing number of instructors have incorporated a variety of active learning techniques into their teaching practice, using, for example, classroom respons...

By Patrick Cafferty

Postsecondary Crosscutting Concepts Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Practice Makes Better

Practice effects are ubiquitous human phenomena that have been scientifically studied for over half a century. They are also among the most directly applicable psychological phenomenon, holding broad implications for any domain involving human expert...

By Jeff Shrager

Postsecondary Biology Phenomena Teaching Strategies

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Sustainability, Energy, and the Green Economy

Interdisciplinary education offers a collaborative approach to multifaceted topics, such as environmental sustainability. In this article, we present the conceptual framework and lessons learned from a team-taught course, entitled Sustainability, Ene...

By Monika Sikand, Claudio Mazzatenta, Keith Wong, Joseph Bush, and Aaron M. Socha

Postsecondary Environmental Science Teaching Strategies

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Incorporating Programming, Modeling, and Data Analysis Into an Introductory Biology Course

This paper describes an introductory biology course for undergraduates that heavily incorporates quantitative problem solving in activities and homework assignments. The course is broken up into a series of units, each organized around a motivating b...

By Eliot C. Bush, Stephen C. Adolph, Matina C. Donaldson-Matasci, Jae Hur, and Danae Schulz

Postsecondary Biology Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching Strategies

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Making Science Personal

General education college astronomy courses offer instructors both a unique audience and a unique challenge. For many students, such a course may be their first time encountering a stand-alone astronomy class, and it is also likely one of the last sc...

By Christine O’Donnell, Edward Prather, and Peter Behroozi

Postsecondary Astronomy Earth & Space Science

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What to Expect With Group Work

Instructors who wish to take advantage of the benefits of collaborative group work often hesitate over concerns about conflict or problems that arise between students. There are no estimates of the level of conflict that can be expected even if best ...

By Peggy Brickman, Austin Lannen, and Jill Beyette

Postsecondary Pre-service Teachers Biology Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Primary Literature in Undergraduate Science Courses

Primary literature—consisting of novel peer-reviewed articles and conference proceedings—has been associated with several positive outcomes for students within undergraduate science courses. Primary literature is the principal method of written s...

By Jeremy David Sloane

Postsecondary Curriculum Interdisciplinary Literacy Teaching Strategies Three-Dimensional Learning

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Implementing Peer-Led Team Learning and Cyber Peer-Led Team Learning in an Organic Chemistry Course

Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) is a small-group, collaborative problem-solving model that has significantly increased student performance in a variety of chemistry undergraduate courses and other STEM courses. Cyber Peer-Led Team Learning (cPLTL), an ...

By Sarah Beth Wilson and Pratibha Varma-Nelson

Postsecondary Pre-service Teachers Chemistry Inclusion Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Assessing Preservice Teachers’ Experience With Wind Energy Education Through a Cooperative Learning Experience

The purpose of this study was to investigate knowledge and attitudes of preservice teachers toward wind energy education. The participants for this study were preservice teachers enrolled in a science methods for teachers course. The preservice teach...

By Mamta Singh

Postsecondary Pre-service Teachers Assessment Earth & Space Science Interdisciplinary Preservice Science Education

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Facilitating Conceptual Change by Engaging Students’ Preconceptions During College Science Classroom Instruction

Whether to engage student preconceptions to facilitate conceptual change is an area of debate among conceptual change theorists. Here, we evaluate the efficacy of a preconceptions-based instructional sequence about groundwater previously described by...

By Leilani A. Arthurs, Justin Elwonger, and Chelsie M. Kowalski

Postsecondary Biology Environmental Science Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Why Is a Covered Planet a Healthy Planet?

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Why Does the Green Crab Love Climate Change?

Middle School Climate Change Disciplinary Core Ideas Is Lesson Plan Life Science NGSS Phenomena Science and Engineering Practices Three-Dimensional Learning

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Why is something that’s happening out in the ocean such a danger to us on the land?

Informal Education Chemistry Climate Change Disciplinary Core Ideas Environmental Science Is Lesson Plan Life Science NGSS Phenomena Science and Engineering Practices Three-Dimensional Learning

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How can growing seaweed help mussels?

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Archive: Teacher Tip Tuesday: The Meaning Beyond The Words: How Language, Race, & Culture Impact Science Teaching & Learning, February 2, 2021

For years, research on the language of classrooms explored how the way we say things impacts students’ sense of belonging. Despite this research, Science and Technology Education have failed to adequately explore how issues of race, language, and c...

Middle School Elementary High School General Science

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Science Is a Human Endeavor

By Beth Murphy

Informal Education STEM

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Balancing Individual and Collective Agency in Informal STEM Learning Experiences

By David Schouweiler and Sara C. Heredia

Middle School Informal Education Engineering STEM Teaching Strategies

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Data Investigations to Further Social Justice Inside and Outside of STEM

By Josephine Louie, Jennifer Stiles, Emily Fagan, Soma Roy, and Beth Chance

High School Equity Inclusion Multicultural STEM

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Improving Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Engineering Teaching Efficacy Beliefs With 3D Design and Printing

The Framework for K–12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) under-score the importance of including engineering design process (EDP) within the science curriculum. The Framework and the NGSS raised engineering design t...

By Erdogan Kaya, Anna Newley, Ezgi Yesilyurt and Hasan Deniz

Postsecondary Pre-service Teachers Engineering NGSS Pedagogy Preservice Science Education Research

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Exploring Student Perception Toward Online Homework and Comparison With Paper Homework in an Introductory Probability Course

Online software systems are extensively used to give students practice on course content, especially in mathematics and physics courses. They offer instant feedback, and several of these systems are open source or very economical compared with hiring...

By Philip Matchett Wood and Vijesh Bhute

Mathematics Research Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Developing a Tiered Mentoring Model for Teaching Assistants Instructing Course-Based Research Experiences

As undergraduate institutions rely more heavily on teaching assistants (TAs) they are simultaneously encouraging implementation of course-based research experiences (CBREs). Due to the dynamic nature of CBREs, it is challenging to assign novice TAs t...

By Magdalene K. Moy, Penny L. Hammrich and Karen Kabnick

Preservice Science Education Research STEM Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Building Bridges

We describe a hands-on, collaborative activity designed to illustrate general properties of evolution, provide practice for quantitative skills, promote creativity and collaboration, and enable student self-assessment of learning. During the activity...

By Kelly A. Carscadden, Molly T. McDermott, Sheela P. Turbek, Silas B. Tittes and Andrew P. Martin

Postsecondary Biology Evolution Research Teaching Strategies

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Learning Researchers

Formative assessment has been shown to be a critical activity for promoting meaningful understanding in the classroom. Systematic engagement in formative assessment helps instructors to develop a clearer picture of where students stand in relation to...

By Young Ae Kim, Jonathan Cox, Katelyn M. Southard, Lisa Elfring, Paul Blowers and Vicente Talanquer

Postsecondary Assessment Research STEM Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies