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Why Are Flowers So Different?

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How Can Properties Help Solve Problems?

Elementary Informal Education Crosscutting Concepts Disciplinary Core Ideas Engineering Is Lesson Plan NGSS Physical Science Science and Engineering Practices

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Environmental Health Literacy

By Elizabeth Barrett-Zahn

Early Childhood Elementary Environmental Science Literacy

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Why Is Water Sphere-Shaped in Space?

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Course-Based Research in the First Semester of College

Undergraduate students are increasingly aware of complex global challenges and have a strong desire to take action and create change. Course-based undergraduate research experiences can offer a wide range of students the opportunity to gain skills ...

By Christina Cianfrani and Sarah Hews

Postsecondary Environmental Science Inquiry Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Features of an Effective Future-Faculty Teaching-Development Program

Many institutions are preparing graduate students and postdoctorals (future faculty) for effective teaching in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Interestingly, little is known about beneficial features of teach...

By Jacinta Mutambuki, Regina Frey, and Denise Leonard

Postsecondary STEM Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Action Research: Using a 5E Instructional Approach to Improve Undergraduate Physics Laboratory Instruction

A physics laboratory instructor used action research to effectively implement a 5E instructional approach, which incorporated scientific practices. The instructor explored how to integrate the instructional approach into practice, challenges presen...

By Ozden Sengul and Renee Schwartz

Postsecondary 5E Physics Research Teacher Preparation

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Design and Impact of an Undergraduate Civic Science Course

An interdisciplinary group of faculty members from Tufts University developed an undergraduate civic science course designed to help students better understand and interpret the broad, sociocultural impacts of science. The course teaches principles...

By Jonathan Garlick, Inger Bergom, and Annie Soisson

Interdisciplinary Teacher Preparation Technology

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Constructive Error Climate: A Classroom Assessment Technique in Science Classes

Although making errors in the learning process is common, it is usually perceived by students as something negative and a potential threat to self-esteem. Such perception often prevents students from considering errors as learning opportunities. By...

By Yunteng He

Postsecondary Assessment Preservice Science Education Research

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How Are They Similar and Different?

Elementary Informal Education Crosscutting Concepts Is Lesson Plan Life Science Literacy NGSS Science and Engineering Practices

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Outcomes for Peer-Based Mentors in a University-Wide STEM Persistence Program: A Three-Year Analysis

While the majority of STEM persistence has focused on outcomes for first-year students, there has been little investigation into the outcomes for peer mentors. Of the studies conducted, results are promising. Benefits for peer mentors include a cha...

By Dean T. Spaulding, Jelane A. Kennedy, Amanda Rozsavolgyi, and Wilfredo Colón

Postsecondary Preservice Science Education Research Teacher Preparation

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Classroom Observations to Characterize Active Learning Within Introductory Undergraduate Science Courses

In this article, the authors describe how classroom observations were used to characterize differences in instructional practices among undergraduate science courses. Student and faculty behaviors and dialogues were quantified using the Teaching Di...

By Katherine McCance, Timothy Weston, and Emily Niemeyer

Postsecondary Research Teaching Strategies

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Engineering Essential Attributes of Cooperative Learning and Quality Discourse in a Large Enrollment Course by Leveraging Clicker Devices

This article describes how clickers (student response systems) may be used to assess and support the development of productive process skills and discourse patterns within student teams during class periods. Clicker questions may poll the class abo...

By Christopher Bauer

Postsecondary Research Teaching Strategies

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Nonideal Placement of Nonmajors in Biology Major and Allied Health Courses Results in Poor Performance and Higher Attrition Rates

Nonideal enrollment of nonbiology majors into biology majors courses serves as an impediment to academic success and negatively impacts rates of college course completion. In this Institutional Review Board (IRB)-approved investigation, we examine ...

By Farshad Tamari, Mary Dawson, and Ivan Shun Ho

Postsecondary Biology Curriculum Learning Progression Teacher Preparation

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A Reflection on the Changing Reality of Science

By Emily Faulconer

Postsecondary Curriculum NGSS Teacher Preparation

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The Changing Earth, Grade 8: STEM Road Map for Middle School

New in 2020! Download and read a sample chapter from this book to learn more.What if you could challenge your eighth graders to help people recognize the inherent risks of living in a region that’s prone to flooding, earthquakes, and volcanoes? Wit...

Middle School Climate Change Earth & Space Science STEM Curriculum Instructional Materials Lesson Plans Interdisciplinary Teacher Preparation

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From STEM to STEAM

By Patty McGinnis

Middle School Advocacy STEM

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Community Ethnography

By Kathleen Schenkel, Selena Bliesener, Angela Calabrese Barton, and Edna Tan

Middle School 5E Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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The Forgotten Factor

By Kaitlyn McGlynn and Janey Kelly

Middle School Citizen Science Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Spring Migrations

By Bob Riddle

Middle School Astronomy Earth & Space Science Life Science

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How Do We Know What Isopods Do?

Elementary Informal Education Disciplinary Core Ideas Is Lesson Plan Life Science NGSS Science and Engineering Practices

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Start With Art

By JULIE LACONTE AND ERICA SPANGLER

Middle School Interdisciplinary Labs Life Science Teaching Strategies

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After-School STEAM Club Connects Botany, Art, and Gaming

By DANA L. ATWOOD-BLAINE

Middle School 5E Biology Life Science STEM

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Hop Into Spring With Amphibian Citizen Science

By Jill Nugent

Middle School Citizen Science Earth & Space Science Life Science

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Distributing Expertise to Integrate Computational Thinking Practices

By MICHAEL CASSIDY, ELI TUCKER-RAYMOND, AND GILLIAN PUTTICK

Middle School Computer Science Instructional Materials Teaching Strategies

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Making Sense of the Human Body

By HELENA CASTLE, KIRA LOWERY, AND SHELLY R. RODRIGUEZ

Middle School Labs Life Science Makerspace

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How STEM Teachers Can Immerse Themselves in the Three Rs Over the Summer

By TRACY VASSILIEV, DOUGLAS J. GARDNER, AND DAVID NEIVANDT

Middle School Inquiry Professional Learning old STEM

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Teacher Spotlight: Jonte Lee

High School Careers New Science Teachers Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Sustainable Mobility Expert E.J. Klock-McCook

By Luba Vangelova

High School Careers Engineering

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Novel Coronavirus

In this secondary-level lesson, students will generate and prioritize questions about the novel coronavirus and evaluate scientific and/or technical information from multiple authoritative sources, assessing the evidence and usefulness of each source...

By William Reed

High School Biology Instructional Materials Is Lesson Plan Lesson Plans Life Science

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Advancing Alloys

The manufacture of metal alloys is ubiquitous, yet infrequently discussed in high school coursework as concepts related to them are often too complex or abstract for beginning science students. However, earlier introduction to metallurgy in classro...

By Christina Polcino, Billyjack Jory, Jean Sabety, Laura Grenot Jones, Jared Ashcroft, and Brandon Rodriguez

High School Chemistry Earth & Space Science Labs

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Science in Socio-Scientific Issues

By Jaimie A. Foulk, Patricia J. Friedrichsen, and Troy D. Sadler

High School Interdisciplinary Pedagogy Teaching Strategies

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From Surviving to Thriving

By Anna Bahnson, Jesse Wilcox, Jerrid Kruse, and Timothy Schou

High School Inclusion NGSS Pedagogy

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Being Unique or Being Identical

By Paul G. Hewitt

High School Physical Science Physics

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The Origin of Federal Air Pollution Policy

By Jen Reidel

High School Climate Change Earth & Space Science

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Pandemics

By Chris Anderson

High School Biology Life Science Technology

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Transgender Perspectives in the Biology Classroom

By Elizabeth Hobbs

High School Equity Inclusion Pedagogy Teaching Strategies