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Science 2.0: When Students Become Digital Citizens
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This column shares web tools that support learning. This month, the authors discuss the Digital Citizen standard where “students(will) recognize the rights, responsibilities, and opportunities of living, learning, and…
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Focus on Physics: The Moon Is Falling!
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This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. This month's column describes the sideways motion of tangential velocity, which keeps the Moon and all artificial Earth satellites falling around…
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The Green Room: Losing Sight of Our Stars
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This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses light pollution and the different activities to investigate this problem.
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Health Wise: Too Many Teens Have High Cholesterol
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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 teens and cholesterol.
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Idea Bank: Measurement by the Numbers
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The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. This month’s Idea Bank discusses how to train students in measurement.
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Career of the Month: Conservation Scientist
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This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Lilian Pintea's career path to becoming a conservation scientist.
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Right to the Source: A Slightly Damaged House
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Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress. This month's issue discusses the Johnstown Flood using a photograph.
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Effects of Gender on Student Response to Course-Based Research
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There is wide consensus among educators that participation in authentic research is valuable for undergraduate science students, and incorporating research into large-enrollment courses is one way to provide that…
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In this article the authors describe changes in an undergraduate anatomy and physiology (A…
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The author describes how she has incorporated mini-research proposals into her lab courses. Students use the data they collect during class experiments as preliminary data, from which they formulate a next-step question…
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Using Citizen Science to Engage Preservice Elementary Educators in Scientific Fieldwork
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Preservice elementary teachers’ lack of confidence in teaching science is an ongoing concern. Only 29% of elementary teachers in the field felt “very well prepared to teach life science,” according to the National…
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Team-Based Learning Reduces Attrition in a First-Semester General Chemistry Course
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Team-based learning (TBL) is an instructional method that has been shown to reduce attrition and increase student learning in a number of disciplines. TBL was implemented in a first-semester general chemistry course,…
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In the Midst of a Shift: Undergraduate STEM Education and “PBL” Enactment
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In the engineering field, problem- and project-based learning, both of which are often referred to as PBL, are the dominant instructional models called for by accreditation agencies. The aim of this qualitative case…
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Through this case study, the authors offer insight into the value of using qualitative methods in course assessment to science instructors in higher education.
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Three college faculty taught large general biology classes using case studies and personal response systems (clickers). Each instructor taught the same eight cases in two different sections, except the questions within…
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