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Most undergraduate science students will likely not become science professors, much less people of science (Fox 1998; Tobias 1992). However, some may become K—12 science teachers. Are we, as science professors,…
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Scope on the Skies: Watch your weight
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This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue focuses on gravity, one of the four forces in the universe that scientists refer to as a fundamental force.
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Investigating the Mercalli Intensity Scale Through "Lived Experience"
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Shake up your class with a look at the intensity-based alternative to the Richter scale.
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In-Class Incentives That Encourage Students to Take Concept Assessments Seriously
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This article explores whether administering a posttest on the final exam differs from administering it on the last day of class with extra final exam points for scoring 100% on the posttest as an incentive.
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A student-led program promotes healthier snacks.
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DNA as a Binary Code: How the Physical Structure of Nucleotide Bases Carries Information
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The DNA triplet code also functions as a binary code. Because double-ring compounds cannot bind to double-ring compounds in the DNA code, the sequence of bases classified simply as purines or pyrimidines can encode for…
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Research and Teaching: Conceptual Change in Introductory-Level Astronomy Courses
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As part of a project to transform an introductory astronomy course (Bisard and Zeilik, 1998), the authors developed, validated, and presented a set of multiple-choice questions to hundreds of students at the University…
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Editor's Note: Ending and Beginning
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Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Safer Science: Making Adjustments for Mobility-Impaired Students
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Students’ mobility impairments need to be addressed for access to and safety in science laboratories. Typical accommodations for mobility-impaired students include workstations, sinks, fume hoods, and safety eyewashes…
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Strengthening Science Departments
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Learn how teachers and chairpersons can help their departments support best practices in science.
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Practitioner Research Success!
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Practitioner research is an ongoing, reflective process in which inservice teachers (i.e., practitioners) ask questions about their day-to-day teaching practice, develop plans of action to investigate these questions,…
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Scope on the Skies: Welcome to Mars
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This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses Mars exploration.
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Idea Bank: Measuring Wavelength with a Ruler
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In the late 1960s, Arthur Schawlow, co-inventor of the laser, visited the author’s high school physics department to share some intriguing laser demonstrations. He popped colored balloons inside transparent ones, and…
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Clickers were used for real-time data collection in two introductory biology laboratory courses so that students could perform statistical analysis on large data sets. Student attitudes toward this use of clickers were…
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One of the most powerful technology tools available to science teachers is often the least used. A course management system (CMS) is a web-based application that provides an online distance learning platform for…
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