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From the Editor’s Desk: Real-World Connections for Your Student Scientists
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Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Disequilibrium: Inseparable Magazines
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This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. Reinforcing the importance of friction through the inseparable magazines discrepant event will help students better understand the world around…
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Listserv Roundup: Guest Speakers and Mentors for Career Exploration in the Science Classroom
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This column shares recent conversations taken from the NSTA listserv community about current science education topics. In this three-week “Code Blue” human body systems simulation project students worked in small groups…
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Science For All: Be Our Guest!
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This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. Using research and experience, the authors have compiled a list of go-to strategies for preparing all of your students—and your speaker—for a memorable…
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Teacher To Teacher: Using Models to Explain Their Thinking
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This column provides practical advice from your peers. This column focuses on implementing the science and engineering practice of Developing and Using Models.
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Scope on the Skies: Gaining Insight Into Mars
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This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This issue discusses the Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport (In-Sight) mission to explore the “inner space” of Mars: its crust, mantle, and core.
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Citizen Science: Prepare an Ant Picnic for Science
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This column highlights formal and informal science research projects that students can join and contribute to by gathering and sharing data. Ant Picnic is a global citizen science project that invites teachers and…
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The teaching of histology has changed dramatically with virtual microscopy. Fewer students of histology spend significant time viewing slides on a microscope and instead study images available in digital slide sets,…
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Connecting Argumentation to 5E Inquiry for Preservice Teachers
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It is important to develop students’ capacities to interpret information and data to reasonable evidence and make appropriate justification to debate with peers in argumentative practice. This article introduces a…
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Integrating workplace skills in large-enrollment classrooms can be challenging, even with the support of teaching assistants (TA). Using formative feedback from both students and TAs, the instructor developed resources…
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Dorm Room Labs for Introductory Large-Lecture Science Classes for Nonscience Majors
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Many large-lecture introductory science courses for nonscience majors do not have a lab component and hence do not provide much opportunity for students to engage in the practice of science. The author has developed a…
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The authors evaluated student perceptions of an inquiry-based, karaoke video exercise in six university classes ranging from first year to graduate level. Students created a 3–4 minute karaoke video on a topic relevant…
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Multiple national reports have pushed for the integration of quantitative concepts into the context of disciplinary science courses. The aim of this study was to evaluate the quantitative and statistical literacy of…
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With only minimal changes to the course structure, classroom clickers were introduced in introductory chemistry to allow students to regularly compare their perceived abilities with their actual abilities, a measurement…
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Research and Teaching: Reducing Student Resistance to Active Learning: Strategies for Instructors
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In spite of considerable evidence of the effectiveness of active learning and other contemporary teaching methods, barriers to adoption of those methods, such as possible student resistance, continue to exist. This…
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