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Focus on Physics: When What You See Is What You Hear
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This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. This issue discusses the law of reflection.
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Health Wise: Why Teens Need the HPV Vaccine
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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 the need for students to receive the HPV vaccine.
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Idea Bank: Keep Current With a Journal Club
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The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. Students select science articles to read and report on during a monthly Journal Club. Students look forward to the activity each…
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Career of the Month: Television Writer
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This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Katherine Lingenfelter's career path to becoming a television writer.
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Right to the Source: Why Scientists Write
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Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress. This month's issue discusses a letter written by Alexander Graham Bell.
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This article details the aim, development, and implementation of the Chemistry-Genetics Course Collaborative, a cotaught offering of a human genetics course with an honors introductory chemistry course.
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Digital Badges in Science: A Novel Approach to the Assessment of Student Learning
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Digital badging is an innovative method of valid, evidence-based assessment that may be used to assess hands-on skills in undergraduate science laboratories, in research laboratories, and in fieldwork. The authors have…
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A Discipline-Specific Approach to the History of U.S. Science Education
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Through a discipline-specific approach to a course on the history of science education in the United States, the authors have spurred the interest of college science faculty and future high school science teachers as…
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Implementation of Peer-Reviewed Homework Assignments
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In large, introductory courses, instructors and teaching assistants often struggle to provide detailed feedback on student homework in a timely manner. This article describes a peer-reviewed homework system that…
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Sesame Street Picnic: An Introductory Activity to Claims, Evidence, and Rationale
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Recent calls for reform in K–16 STEM education not only emphasize mastery of content, but also call for students to engage in the scientific practice of making evidence-based claims, or scientific argumentation. However…
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The authors describe how a practical instructional development process helped a first-year assistant professor rapidly develop, implement, and assess the impact on her Analytical Chemistry course caused by three changes…
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Analyzing, interpreting, and clearly presenting real data are skills all students should develop, majors and nonmajors alike. These process skills require lots of practice coupled with targeted feedback from instructors…
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Biology I is a required course for many STEM majors and is often their first college-level laboratory experience. The replacement of the traditional face-to-face laboratory experience with virtual laboratories could…
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Collaborative learning in small groups is commonly implemented as a part of student-centered curricula. In large-enrollment courses, details of the interactions among students as a consequence of working in…
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Point of View: Science Classrooms as a Gateway to Comprehensive Pedagogy
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This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This month’s issue discusses the importance of college-level science classrooms practicing interdisciplinarity.
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