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Health Wise: Pushing Caffeine to Teens
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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. In this month’s issue students become more aware of caffeine in their diets.
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Safer Science: Choose Biological Stains Carefully
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This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses biological stains.
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The Green Room: Why Care About Wetlands?
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This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue offers activities to help students learn about wetlands.
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This article discusses the implementation of student-centered learning in introductory biology classses that is being facilitated by the use of faculty learning communities.
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Scientists' and Teachers' Perspectives About Collaboration
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The authors recently completed a six-year regional project that used several approaches to develop scientist-teacher relationships. At the conclusion 38 scientists and teachers were brought together to reflect on their…
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Transformative Research-Based Pedagogy Workshops for Chemistry Graduate Students and Postdocs
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This article discusses one-day professional development workshops for graduate students and postdocs. The workshop introduced strong instructional approaches, established the importance of theory, and introduced novel…
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Online Reading Informs Classroom Instruction and Promotes Collaborative Learning
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This article describes an online annotation tool that was tested in two biology courses: intermediate-level Molecular Biology and upper level Cancer Biology.
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Reforming an Undergraduate Environmental Science Course for Nonscience Majors
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This article discusses the key components of a reform-based introductory undergraduate environmental science course for nonscience majors and elementary teacher candidates as well as the impact of such components on the…
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This article discusses a semester-long interdisciplinary science course using recently developed optogenetic technique as a main context. This technique provides an engaging modern context for studying and connecting…
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This article discusses three alternative approaches to assessment of exam responses in an undergraduate biochemistry course.
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In this article high school and undergraduate research students were surveyed over a 10-week period of their summer research programs to investigate their understanding of key concepts in science ethics.
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Editorial: Rattled on the Reviewing Stand
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The Journal of College Science Teaching’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Two-Year Community: Exploring Student Engagement in an Introductory Biology Course
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For this article the authors explored the ideas of engagement and place at a midsize community college. We found that students have thoughtful opinions about each and are frustrated with some aspects of our current…
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Case Study: Revising a Formal Case Study Presentation as an Independent Research Project
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This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. In this month’s issue the author discusses creating case study…
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Use nonfiction eBooks to engage students in science research.
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