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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about plant growth. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize that plants use their stored food to grow in the absence of light.
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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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The Importance of Partnership, Support, and Sustained Professional Development
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Peer-Led Team Learning as Educational Tool for First-Year Biology Students
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This article reports the findings of the Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) model intervention study in an introductory biology course at a Puerto Rican private university. PLTL introduces to the traditional class format an…
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Transitioning an In-Person Elementary STEM After-School Program to Distance Learning During COVID-19
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Despite more women and underrepresented students entering engineering, there are still gaps in achievement. A potential remedy is to establish equitable team dynamics during groupwork. Groupware systems have been…
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Using a Game to Teach Invasive Species Spread and Management
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Invasive species are a major ecological and economic problem at the global scale, and education plays a major role in raising awareness and combating these species’ future spread. There are complex management and…
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This study examines what prior knowledge and misconceptions about evolutionary theory students bring with them into an introductory biological anthropology course. One hundred and fifty-three students completed short,…
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Although peer interaction in the college classroom may benefit some students by developing peer networks for future collaborations, prior research has suggested that these relationships most often benefit students from…
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Biological/Chemical Waste Management
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Lesson Plan |
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about food, transformation of matter, growth and development, conservation of mass, and systems. The concepts underlying this probe are complex. It is…
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Multilingual Families and Field Trips
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Engineering Science Teacher Creativity!
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Science/STEM Standard Operating Procedures for a Safer New School Year
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