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The New Teacher's Toolbox: Finding Funding and Securing Swag
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This column shares tips for teachers just beginning their career. This month’s issue offers tips for finding funding and free equipment for the science classroom.
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Career of the Month: An Interview With Microscopist Hari Shroff
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This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue highlights a microscopist career.
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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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