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  • Is It Living?

    Lesson Plan |

    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about living and nonliving. It is designed to find out what attributes students consider when determining if something is living or was once living.

  • Little Girl Lost

    Case Study |

  • The Power of Practice

    Journal Article |

    Critical thinking skills are sought after in the workforce and are often included in course, departmental, and programmatic learning objectives.  However, in the curriculum of many courses we tend to focus on…

  • Is It a Plant?

    Lesson Plan |

    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the concept of a plant. The probe is designed to find out how students determine whether a living thing is considered to be a plant.

  • Is It an Animal?

    Lesson Plan |

    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about animals. The probe is designed to find out what characteristics students use to determine whether an organism is classified as an animal.

  • Needs of Seeds

    Lesson Plan |

    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about seeds. The probe is designed to find out what students think most seeds need to germinate.

  • Needs of Seeds

    Lesson Plan |

    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about seeds. The probe is designed to find out what students think most seeds need to germinate.

  • Genetics with Dragons

    Journal Article |

    Hardware, software, and websites for use in the classroom.

  • Comparison of Student Success Between High-Clicker and Low-Clicker Frequency in a Large-Enrollment Introductory Biology Course

    Journal Article |

    Active-learning approaches have recently been broadly promoted on many campuses, but research is limited on how varying levels of interaction impact student success. The aim of this study was to compare student success…

  • Student Perceptions of Open Educational Resources Video-Based Active Learning in University-Level Biology Classes:

    Journal Article |

    We quantified student perceptions of an active learning exercise, based on open-educational video resources, in both a first-year seminar class (Natural Environment of Athens and Georgia, three sections), and a larger…

  • A Layered Approach to Scientific Models

    Journal Article |

  • Freebies for Science Teachers, Week of June 15, 2020

    Reports Article |

  • Construction Ahead: Evaluating Deployment Methods for Categorization Tasks as Precursors to Lecture

    Journal Article |

    The authors of this article briefly review the literature rationalizing sorting tasks as a preclass activity for fostering deep initial learning and transfer.

  • Is It Food for Plants?

    Lesson Plan |

    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the product of photosynthesis. The probe is designed to reveal (1) whether students recognize that the food a plant makes is the food it uses and (…

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