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Science 2.0: Mastering Scientific Practices With Technology, Part 2
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This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue shows how technology can help students engage in three of the scientific practices described in the Next Generation Science Standards.
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The Green Room: The Top Five Environmental Stories of 2015
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This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses top environmental stories and where students can find sources for environmental news. Students can then be assigned…
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Health Wise: Emotional Intelligence Is Important, Too
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Idea Bank: Using Earthquakes as "Teachable Moments"
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The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. This month’s Idea Bank highlights the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) Education and Public Outreach…
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Career of the Month: Systems Engineer
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This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Anne O'Neil's career path to becoming a systems engineer.
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Safer Science: Safer Use of Toxic Chemicals
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This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses the use of moderately or highly toxic chemicals.
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A Hands-On Activity to Build Mastery of Intermolecular Forces and Its Impacts on Student Learning
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The intermolecular forces activity presented in this article is designed to foster concept-building through students’ use of concrete, manipulative objects, and it was developed to be pedagogically sound. Data analysis…
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To Flip or Not to Flip? Analysis of a Flipped Classroom Pedagogy in a General Biology Course
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In an attempt to better understand the flipped technique and evaluate its purported superiority in terms of student learning gains, the authors conducted an experiment comparing a flipped classroom to a traditional…
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Deliberative democracy, a consensus model of decision making, has been used in real-life policy making involving controversial, science-related issues to increase citizen participation and engagement. Here, we describe…
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The objective of this article is to explain and provide rubrics for science and communication faculty as a means to help nonscience students, in basic science classes, understand that proper communication and…
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We developed and implemented a series of workshops and seminars in an undergraduate journal club targeted at improving student development in applying the scientific process. Students were surveyed before and after…
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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Success for Underrepresented Students in STEM
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To recruit underrepresented students with demonstrated financial need into STEM disciplines, Lock Haven University established the interdisciplinary Nano Scholars Program, offering National Science Foundation–funded…
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In this study, a cohort of final-year undergraduate science students were surveyed to examine whether they fully read journal articles, including whether they seek to understand how the results support the conclusions.…
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Retention of students to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) major has been studied for four cohorts participating in a summer bridge program supported by the National Science Foundation. Students…
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Point of View: How Important Is Achieving Equity in Undergraduate STEM Education to You?
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This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. In this month’s issue the authors make a case for their belief that significant progress toward equity and inclusion…
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