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Forces at Work: The Top 5 Reasons for Belonging to a Professional Organization
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Although we all interact within our classrooms and with our students all of the time, we also need the dynamic of peer interaction. This article describes the benefits of participating in a professional organization for…
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Fishbone Diagrams: Organize Reading Content With a “Bare Bones” Strategy
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Fishbone diagrams, also known as Ishikawa diagrams or cause-and-effect diagrams, are one of the many problem-solving tools created by Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa, a University of Tokyo professor. Part of the brilliance of…
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A Sense of Scale: Studying how scale affects systems and organisms
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The concept of scale is central to many science disciplines. The authors share activities focusing on the importance of scale and its effects.
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The Use of Mastery Learning With Competency-Based Grading in an Organic Chemistry Course
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Mastery learning is an instructional method based on the idea that students learn best if they fully understand one concept before moving to the next and has been shown to be extremely effective in math and science…
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Green Science: Organic Milk—Is the Grass Greener on the Other Side?
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This column focuses on issues related to environmentally friendly and sustainable science. In this month’s column we look at the costs and benefits of producing organic milk.
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Hypotheses of population genetics are derived and tested by students in the introductory genetics laboratory classroom as they explore the effects of biotic variables (physical traits of fruit flies) and abiotic…
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Building Bridges Between Science Courses Using Honors Organic Chemistry Projects
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Introductory undergraduate science courses are traditionally offered as distinct units without formalized student interaction between classes. To bridge science courses, the authors used three Honors Organic Chemistry…
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