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Despite student interest, the heart is often a poorly understood topic in biology. To help students understand this vital organ’s physiology, the author created this investigation activity involving the mammalian heart…
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Idea Bank: An Environmentally Responsible Physics Course
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The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. This month’s Idea Bank discusses emphasizing energy in an introductory physics course.
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Evaluating College Science and Mathematics Instruction
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This paper reports evaluative data on five courses that have taken part in a curriculum reform effort called the Arizona Collaborative for Excellence in the Preparation of Teachers. Primarily through summer faculty…
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Science Sampler: Radio-wave inquiry with web-controlled receivers
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This article describes a web-enhanced investigation of radio waves suitable for upper middle school science students that correlates with the National Science Education Standards. In this engaging lesson, students are…
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Teacher’s Toolkit: Facilitating an inquiry-based science classroom
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Despite recommendations from the National Science Education Standards and best practices for teaching science through inquiry-based methods, many teachers continue with traditional teaching methods citing management…
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Moon Phase as a Context for Teaching Scale Factor
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The Sun and the Moon are our most visible neighbors in space, yet their distance and size relative to the Earth are often misunderstood. Science textbooks fuel this misconception because they regularly depict linear…
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Idea Bank: A Forgotten Resource
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The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. This month’s Idea Bank focuses on the one educational resource often overlooked—guest speakers. They can offer an excellent insight…
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Creative Exercises in General Chemistry: A Student-Centered Assessment
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Creative exercises (CEs) are a form of assessment in which students are given a prompt and asked to write down as many distinct, correct, and relevant facts about the prompt as they can. Students receive credit for each…
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In this activity, students create unique, colorful flying discs and their interest in science soars! Once the discs are finished, they are tested for flight distance and the students return to the classroom to do the…
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Have you participated in professional development (PD) programs that never met your expectations? Have you found it difficult to find a program that fits well with your academic and pedagogical needs? If so, the author…
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Editorial: Coming Soon -- Isn't Your Science Just a Theory?
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Many of our fellow citizens believe that creationist claims deserve equal time with evolution in biology class. "After all, isn't evolution just a theory?" The federal government has spent billions on science…
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Evolution: Don't Debate, Educate
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Although controversies will undoubtedly continue, scientists should balance their desire for political, legal, and educational confrontation with creationists with the long-term goal of educating all students about…
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Buffer Biology: A design-your-own lab for chemistry
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This article presents a buffer investigation to learn about the buffering capacity of household products such as shampoo and hand lotion. Students design and perform their own chemistry lab to gain a better…
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Collaborative Distance Learning
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How can you connect teachers in two different school districts, separated by more than 50 miles, on a weekly basis to provide ongoing professional development (PD)? The answer: videoconferencing. In this article, the…
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Science Sampler: Showing students how they write—Using writing portfolios in science
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What happens to teacher feedback once papers are handed back to the students? This article features a new method for helping students use teacher comments to improve their science writing skills.
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