All Resources
Web Seminar
Archive: NIH Archive: Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code: Playlist, July 27, 2022
Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code provides free lesson plans and storyline units to help guide high school students as they explore various genetics and genomics concepts. Units will culminate in community-focused projects. In this session, partic...
Web Seminar
Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code provides free lesson plans and storyline units to help guide high school students as they explore various genetics and genomics concepts. Units will culminate in community-focused projects....
Web Seminar
Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code provides free lesson plans and storyline units to help guide high school students as they explore various genetics and genomics concepts. Units will culminate in community-focused projects....
Lesson Plan
Web Seminar
Archive: Fall 2022: Developing a Competitive Application for Shell Teaching Awards, November 7, 2022
Shell Science Teaching Award: This award recognizes one outstanding classroom science teacher (K–12) who has had a positive impact on his or her students, school, and community through exemplary classroom science teaching. K–12 classroo...
Web Seminar
Archive: Science Update: Is Cancer Inevitable? July 14, 2022
What should teachers, their students, and the general public know about the current state of cancer diagnoses, research, and treatments, and what opportunities exist for studies that could lead to contributing careers? Join Johns Hopkins University B...
Journal Article
Using Human-Centered Design to Enhance the Guest Experience at the Dallas Arboretum
By Rob Rouse, Dara Rossi, and Dustin Miller
Journal Article
An Adapted Journal Club Approach
Students must be able to evaluate primary literature, yet few options exist within the undergraduate curriculum to develop the necessary skills. In this article, we offer an adapted journal club that provides students opportunities to critically anal...
By Melissa Eslinger, Sydney Alekseyev, and Helen Schroeder
Journal Article
Developing a Classroom Assessment Rubric
The development and implementation of varied assessment practices is a major focus in higher education. Assessment benefits both students and teachers; it informs teachers about students’ learning and misconceptions, thereby helping teachers improv...
By Chandrani Mishra, Loran Carleton Parker, and Kari L. Clase
Journal Article
This article explores results from a 3-year model of laboratory instruction, Project Synapse, that synthesized biology, chemistry, and communication curricula for first-year science majors at a STEM-focused university. Laboratory biology-chemistry in...
By Margery Gardner, Neal Abrams, Gregory McGee, and Elizabeth Hogan
Journal Article
A Model for a Data Analysis– and Literature-Intensive Undergraduate Course
This article describes the use of literature to broaden students’ skills in content comprehension, data analysis, modeling, and productive scientific discussion. The design builds on existing models to maximize student gains in ability, confidence,...
By Karen Resendes
Journal Article
This study is an exploratory comparison of 69 Hispanic students enrolled in first-semester general chemistry (Chem I) who attended either a Hispanic-Serving or emerging Hispanic-Serving Institution and were not successful in Chem I. Students’ autom...
By Adrian Villalta-Cerdas, Anton Dubrovskiy, Deborah Rush Walker, Blain Mamiya, G. Robert Shelton, Cynthia B. Powell, Susan Broadway, Rebecca Weber, and Diana Mason
Journal Article
Investigating Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs About Teaching and Learning Science
To inform teacher education programs, it is imperative to uncover preservice teachers’ (PSTs) implicit and tacit beliefs about teaching and learning science. The study of teachers’ beliefs requires a range of methodological approaches to unearth ...
By Ezgi Yesilyurt