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Science in Perspective, a third-semester, speaking-intensive course for nonscience majors and future teachers, builds on participants’ prior science background to help them more fully understand and apply scientific…
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Teaming up with the larger school community and inviting families to learn alongside students has benefits for all. Students and their families learn to apply the engineering design process in a variety of contexts…
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Editor’s Corner: Why Study Environmental Issues?
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There are many compelling reasons to include environmental education (EE) in our science classes. Environmental issues are interdisciplinary—facilitating their inclusion in both physical and life science. They are also…
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The Green Room: Genetically Modified Crops
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This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue discusses the pros and cons of genetically modified crops.
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Science Sampler: Teacher for a day—Sometimes the front of the classroom is the best place to learn
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Demo Day is a day in which students assume the role of teacher. This allows students to gain valuable research and presentation skills, learn how to teach science to younger students, and experience learning from the…
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Idea Bank: Building a Periodic Table
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The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. In this month’s Idea Bank, an introductory unit on the periodic table of elements is adapted for a blind physical science student,…
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The Journal of College Science Teaching is one of four journals published by the National Science Teachers Association. Each of the journals serves the educators working at a different level of education. JCST shares…
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On a partly sunny afternoon, a fourth-grade class at the Marietta Center for Advanced Academics in Marietta, Georgia, was gearing up to explore key concepts regarding the nature of light. Armed with translucent beads…
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Implementation of an Explicit and Reflective Pedagogy in Introductory Biology Laboratories
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Students need to reflect on the practice of science to fully understand the nature of science (NOS), which is an important component of scientific literacy. In this paper, the authors describe how to implement an…
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Geospatial technologies have emerged over the last 15 years as one of the key tools used by environmental scientists (NRC 2006). In fact, educators have recognized that coupling geospatial technologies with…
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Libros de Ciencias en Español (2009)
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Bienvenido—Welcome to our yearly list of recently published Spanish or bilingual science texts. Although most of these titles are for grades K–2, Spanish-speaking scientists-to-be of all ages will find these selections…
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Science Sampler: Museums as resources for science teachers
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Need local resources to complement your science curricula? Why not check out your local museum, zoo, or nature center? A class visit to an informal science center can do wonders to broaden students’ horizons while…
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Editor’s Roundtable: Sculpting the Earth’s surface
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Our students need to know about the structure of the Earth and about the geological processes that shape its surface—both the long-term and the everyday processes, the abrupt shifts of faults, the sustained movements of…
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One way of implementing project-based science (PBS) is to use problem-based learning (PBL), in which students formulate their own problems. These problems are often ill-structured, mirroring complex real-life problems…
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Artistic Expressions in Science and Mathematics
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At Chicago's Columbia College, students taking science or math classes have undertaken a new type of assignment that incorporates the application of artistic skills in the curriculum. In this activity, students complete…
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