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Investigative Labs in Biology: The Importance of Attending to Team Dynamics
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This article provides some tips for success in facilitating teamwork. Working collaboratively is common in science and the functioning of teams has a large impact on both the implementation of a research project and…
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GENIQUEST is a cyberlearning computer program that allows students to investigate biological data using a research-based instructional model. In this article, the authors make the case for using cyberlearning to teach…
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Using Learning Preferences to Direct Teaching and Balance Academic Performance
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The author uses the Index of Learning Styles in his Introductory Biology class and finds a link between academic performance in the laboratory and learning preference scores.
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Career of the Month: Physician Assistant
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This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. In this month’s issue we learn about one physician assistant's experiences.
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The Early Years: Nurturing Young Chemists
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Chemistry explorations in early childhood classrooms often involve baking, mixing, or dissolving, during which students predict outcomes and try to replicate the results. The objective is to help students come to an…
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The Early Years: Animal Adventures
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Children can have a new favorite animal every week or even every hour. The more familiar the children become with an animal, the more they will be able to understand how its body form and behavior allow it to survive.…
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It’s show time for eighth grade physical science students after a week of designing, building, and refining Conversion Contraptions. The contraptions are fun combinations of moving parts that use many forms of energy…
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McLean v. Arkansas (1982) and Beyond: Implications for Biology Professors
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To assess current trends of evolution instruction in high schools of the mid-South, the authors had Arkansas high school biology teachers and students enrolled in a freshman-level nonmajors biology course at a midsize…
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Clickers Beyond the First-Year Science Classroom
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This case study’s primary objective is to describe the implementation of the electronic response system (clickers) in a small (N = 25) second-year physics course at a large public university and to draw attention of the…
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The Early Years: The Story of Corn
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Corn is an interesting subject for young children to explore because it grows ears in many forms, the seeds are easy to see and handle, and it is familiar to most children in one food product or another. Therefore,…
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Learn to differentiate between accuracy and precision with this data-collection activity from the Healthy Water, Healthy People Water Quality Educators Guide.
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Assessment <em>for</em> Learning
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Due to the student-centered nature of problem-based learning (PBL) and project-based science (PBS), it is easy for teachers not to provide students with adequate feedback or enough support to promote critical thinking.…
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Science Sampler: Making connections in Earth science using local data
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Examining data provides a unique opportunity to have students work actively with various technologies, such as computers or graphing calculators. Students can import data into spreadsheet software, execute mathematical…
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Worms in the College Classroom: More Than Just a Composting Demonstration
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Although worm bins have been used by K–12 and nonformal educators for decades, there is little evidence of their use in postsecondary education. The ease of use, maintenance, affordability, portability, and diversity of…
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Motivating Students to Read Physics Content
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Projects using trade books encourage students to learn various physics concepts and understand technical reading material. They can both reinforce and instruct science concepts and allow students a chance to acquire and…
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