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The Green Room: Exploring Our Public Lands
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This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month's issue discusses the different uses of public lands.
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Health Wise: Be Prepared for Opioid Overdoses
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This Q&A style column provides up-to-date information on current health topics—helping students (and teachers) make healthy choices. This month’s issue discusses student overdoses related to the national opioid epidemic.
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Idea Bank: Setting the Stage: Your First Week of Science Class
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The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. This month’s Idea Bank shows how to engage your students on the first day in stimulating activities.
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Career of the Month: Epidemiologist
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This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Jennifer McQuiston's career path to becoming an epidemiologist.
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Right to the Source: A Nose for Poison Gas Saved Lives
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Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress. This month's issue discusses the Chemical Warfare School notebook of Earle Covington Smith who in WWII was responsible for sniffing the air to determine…
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Two Departments, Two Models of Interdisciplinary Peer Learning
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On graduation, teacher candidates (TCs) are typically underprepared to teach science, particularly physical science, whereas physics graduates frequently lack training in teaching or effective communication. In response…
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This study surveyed students who had participated over a 10-year period in California Teach courses, which integrate evidence-based, best practices of pedagogy, internship, and reflection. The authors found that well-…
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Improving Undergraduate Climate Change Literacy Through Writing: A Pilot Study
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A climate-literate population, capable of making informed decisions related to climate change, is of critical importance as society faces ever-increasing global temperatures and changes in the climate system. This…
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An introductory undergraduate biology laboratory session about vertebrate tissues was gamified to elucidate the effects of gameful learning on students’ perceptions of their own learning and motivation.
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An Integrated Approach to Training Graduate Teaching Assistants
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We describe the implementation of a graduate teaching assistant (GTA) training program in the Department of Chemistry designed to integrate with the professional development initiatives of the Graduate School at a large…
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Research and Teaching: Writing to Learn in the Natural Sciences: Does Source Material Matter?
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For over 4 decades, educational researchers have been studying best practices for introducing writing into the curriculum. One successful strategy, a low-stakes writing exercise called “writing to learn” (WTL), has been…
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Students often struggle in introductory health sciences courses; some students have difficulty in upper level classes. To address this, the authors converted three lecture/lab courses, traditional first-year Anatomy and…
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This study investigates how summative assessments could be used to reduce the achievement gap among at-risk groups of students in an introductory biology course.
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Authentic undergraduate research laboratory experiences are essential to aid in the implementation of science education reform mandates and to effectively train a new generation of biology students. The authors present…
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Two-Year Community: Resolving Misconceptions Through Student Reflections
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This study aimed to identify and resolve misconceptions in three important STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) courses by using student reflective activities.
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