Point of View: Can We Teach Science in a More Culturally Responsive Way Without Sacrificing Time or Content?

Journal Article | June 2018

This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. In this issue the authors describe how they discovered that by incorporating culturally relevant analogies and examples…

Case Study: Hands-On Mini-Case Studies Promote Integration of Microbiological Concepts

Journal Article | June 2018

This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. In this article, the authors present a series of 10 mini-case studies…

Research and Teaching: Impact of a Departmental Instructional Skills Course on Graduate Students’ Beliefs About Science Teaching and Learning

Journal Article | June 2018

Graduate teaching assistants play an important role in undergraduate programs in the authors' Earth Science Department. A course on teaching and learning was developed to train graduate students in student-centered…

Research and Teaching: The Five Minute Teach: Instructional Design to Support TA Training and Writing Instruction in the Sciences

Journal Article | June 2018

The Five Minute Teach (5MT) serves as both a training tool for graduate teaching assistants (TAs) and a format for explicit discipline-based writing instruction. Here the authors describe the development and execution…

Research and Teaching: Enriching Undergraduate Experiences With Outreach in School STEM Clubs

Journal Article | June 2018

The STEM Club Leadership for Undergraduate STEM Education, Recruiting and Success project at a large public research university in the Mountain West presents an outreach model to engage undergraduate STEM majors in…

Research and Teaching: Observable Features of Active Science Education Practices

Journal Article | June 2018

Although research findings support elevated learning outcomes for students who engage in active science learning, faculty members are still resistant to using these practices. In this article the authors describe the…

Learning From Failed Experiments

Journal Article | July 2018

The messy aspects of doing science

Data-Driven Inquiry in the PBL Classroom

Journal Article | July 2018

Linking maps, graphs, and tables in biology

From DNA to Proteins

Journal Article | July 2018

Learning tertiary folding through problem solving

Making Science Relevant

Journal Article | July 2018

Using socio-scientific issues to foster critical thinking

Could Your Food Be Contaminated?

Journal Article | July 2018

Mycotoxins in feed and food products

Editor’s Corner: It’s Critical

Journal Article | July 2018

The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the current issue.

Focus on Physics: Care in the Classroom: This Teacher’s Odyssey

Journal Article | July 2018

This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. The department editor describes his career as a teacher.

Career of the Month: Volcanologist

Journal Article | July 2018

This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This issue describes Adam Soule's career path to becoming a volcanologist.

Right to the Source: From Inconvenience to Inspiration

Journal Article | July 2018

Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress. This issue discusses Benjamin Franklin’s May 23, 1785, letter to George Whatley about bifocal glasses.