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Connect Students With Outdoor STEM Learning Opportunities Alongside Science Professionals
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Investigating Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs About Teaching and Learning Science
Journal Article |
To inform teacher education programs, it is imperative to uncover preservice teachers’ (PSTs) implicit and tacit beliefs about teaching and learning science. The study of teachers’ beliefs requires a range of…
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Building a New Interdisciplinary Service-Learning Partnership Through Virtual Connections
Journal Article |
This article presents a synopsis of an interdisciplinary literacy-science, cross-country, fully remote service-learning (S-L) project prompted by and executed during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The article…
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A Flipped Classroom Approach and Digital Learning in an Undergraduate Molecular Biology Course
Journal Article |
Teaching modalities such as Flipped Classroom Approach (FCA) are becoming increasingly popular in higher education. FCA requires that instructional content is completed outside the classroom, thus allowing active-…
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Coordinating Modeling With Content Representations to Support Students’ Three-Dimensional Learning
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From Birding to Robotics: Integrating STEM Learning Through Community Collaboration
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Collaboration Through Critical Service Learning—In Search of Earth’s Secrets
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Guest Editorial: Exploring Climate Justice Learning: Visions, Challenges, and Opportunities
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A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Perspectives Toward Learning Assistant–Faculty Relationships
Journal Article |
Learning Assistant (LA) programs oversee and support undergraduate instructors and faculty members who work together to facilitate student learning in a variety of classroom settings. The success of an LA program is…
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NSTA Press Book |
A Joint publication of Corwin and NSTA Press In Learning Science by Doing Science, you get classic activities to teach the key ideas of science--and turn students into scientists. In this straightforward and…
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Emphasis on Quality in iNaturalist Plant Collections Enhances Learning and Research Utility
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Following the switch to remote online teaching in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the plant taxonomy course at the University of Georgia (UGA) switched to iNaturalist for the specimen collection portion of the course…
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Honoring Adult Learners: Adult Learning Theories and Implications for Professional Development
Book Chapter |
Designers of adult learning must consider carefully the research on adult learning and change and factor this into learning designs. In this chapter, the author reviews a classic adult learning model and two…
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The Model Science Laboratory Project: Lessons Learned about Teacher Retention
Book Chapter |
This chapter presents the Model Science Laboratory Project in the Rice University/Houston Independent School District. The project provided support, training, and time for teachers to refine their instruction of science…
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Professional Development and How Teachers Learn: Developing Expert Science Teachers
Book Chapter |
Groundbreaking research on learning and cognition has produced many new insights into how people learn. These findings conclusively dispel the idea that short-term and isolated learning experiences can produce powerful…
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Creating and Sustaining Science-Focused Professional Learning Communities Through Partnerships
Book Chapter |
In this chapter, the authors share selected components of The North Cascades and Olympic Science Partnership (NCOSP) model for professional learning communities (PLCs) and the impact those communities had on instruction…