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Editorial: Headwinds Over Kansas—Making Good on Our Commitment to Science Education
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The Journal of College Science Teaching’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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To develop scientific literacy in today’s global era, it is important that students learn about interactions within the Earth’s systems worldwide. A unit exploring El Niño and La Niña—phenomena that can result in…
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Science Sampler: Strategies to increase active discussion and thinking for all students
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How many times have you expected to hold an exciting class discussion after a laboratory activity or demonstration only to have just one or two students speak? To increase student participation in class discussions, try…
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Reinvigorating Science Journals
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Science-themed books are wonderful tools for emphasizing the importance of observation and journaling. They can also be used to effectively promote literacy skills in science. This article shares a selection of nature…
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Science 101: How do oil and gas companies know where to drill?
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Contrary to popular opinion, most oil is not discovered by a backwoods hunter shooting at some food when up through the ground comes bubbling crude (you younger people ask your parents what silly TV program the author…
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President’s Message: Meeting the Needs of the New World Student
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To succeed in the 21st century, students have to learn how to be creative problem solvers who can work in collaborative groups. These new-world students must have the ability to think critically, use technology…
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Science Sampler: Using direct instruction to teach content vocabulary
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The magnitude of vocabulary students need to know in the middle school science curriculum is vast and can be daunting. As educators, it is our job to efficiently and effectively teach students so that they are not only…
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A Comparison of Two Forms of Assessment in an Introductory Biology Laboratory Course
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Because of enrollment increases, many institutions have advocated the replacement of free-response exams with forced-choice exams as a time-saving strategy. The study in this article evaluated the replacement of free-…
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The Green Room: Exploring Fuel Efficiency
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This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue offers classroom activities dealing with fuel efficiency.
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Editor's Corner - Science Literacy: Then and Now
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The history of science is also a history of science writing. For scientists and also for our science students, the ability to communicate through writing and reading is a crucial skill at the heart of developing…
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Scope on Safety: Proactive safety
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Horrifying stories of accidents in the science lab abound. You may think that such accidents could never happen in your lab, but accidents do happen even in the most controlled environments. So, the best thing you can…
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Dopplerball is used at the end of a unit on waves and sound to give students firsthand experience with the Doppler effect. Students play the game in silence wearing a blindfold.
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Introducing the software package “ClimProb” to their University of Nebraska-Lincoln students, the authors created a more exciting and interesting classroom environment by encouraging students to learn through critical…
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Creating Case Study Presentations: A Survey of Senior Seminar Students
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Senior seminar students were surveyed on their opinions of a course that required them to create and present original formal case studies; this resulted in an accumulation of quantitative and qualitative data that were…
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Hands-On Science, 680 Hands at a Time
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This article explains how students can do hands-on science in a large lecture theater with seats bolted to the floor. It specifically describes the logistics of doing a collapsing can activity in such a large class to…
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