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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers From the Field, June 21, 2022
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Freebies for Science Teachers, February 16, 2021
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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, May 30, 2023
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From the Field: Events and Opportunities, October 5, 2021
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Student-Driven Research in the First Year
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We designed the Integrated Sciences First-Year Program (ISFP) to introduce students to the nature and process of science early in their academic career, help them develop skills and competencies, and create an…
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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…
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Negative Student Response to Active Learning in STEM Classrooms:
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Recent research has supported the use of student-centered teaching practices, such as active learning, because of its effectiveness in improving student learning and retention when compared with traditional, lecture-…
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Starting to Teach During the Pandemic
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about conservation of matter during combustion. The probe is designed to find out if students think the mass changes as paper burns inside a closed…
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about conservation of matter during a chemical change (oxidation). The probe is designed to find out if students think the mass changes as rust forms…
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From the Field: Events and Opportunities, December 15, 2020
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Newspaper Physics for First-Year College Students
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This article describes and illustrates a physics course for first-year college students whose only knowledge of physics is that they do not like the subject. The physics content is driven entirely by what appears in…
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There and Back: How a Global Pandemic Shaped Youth Programming
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Science Sampler: The Sweet Earth
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This activity compares different kinds of candy to the different types of rocks based on direct observation. A great number of geologic processes either take unimaginable lengths of time to complete, or happen in places…