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Modifying Traditional Labs to Target Scientific Reasoning
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This article showcases how a physics lab course was successfully redesigned to promote important reasoning abilities not explicitly addressed in the typical college setting. Student development of such abilities is…
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Making Critical Thinking Visible for Student Analysis and Reflection
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Practice critical-thinking skills with this phenomena-centered dinosaur bone activity.
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Adapting a Popular Technique in College Lecture Halls to K–12 Classrooms
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Saving a Swamp: Fifth-Grade Students to the Rescue!
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Inquiry-Based Learning on Biomimicry
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Multimodal Text Sets to Use Literature and Engage All Learners in the Science Classroom
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Nonideal enrollment of nonbiology majors into biology majors courses serves as an impediment to academic success and negatively impacts rates of college course completion. In this Institutional Review Board (IRB)-…
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Earthworm Distribution in the Schoolyard Ecosystem
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The idea that plants do photosynthesis but do not do cellular respiration is a common misconception among middle and high school students that often stems from an over-simplification of these processes in diagrams and…
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This paper highlights learning supports associated with genetics lessons that were implemented in a urban high school biology classroom. The supports provided access to science content for ELs, students with IEPs, and…
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How STEM Teachers Can Immerse Themselves in the Three Rs Over the Summer
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A lesson that focuses on the intricate co-evolution of flowers with their pollinators is one way to help students learn the delicate balance in nature and help ensure that our actions do not upset this balance. In this…
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As undergraduate institutions rely more heavily on teaching assistants (TAs) they are simultaneously encouraging implementation of course-based research experiences (CBREs). Due to the dynamic nature of CBREs, it is…
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Concept maps make connections between ideas apparent, and thus would seem ideally suited to demonstrate learning. Yet, they are not widely used by instructors, particularly in large university classes. In this paper we…
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