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Archive: Teacher Tip Tuesday: Learn and Lead on Twitter, August 10, 2021
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Explore how Twitter can be a vehicle for your own reflection, collaboration, and learning as well as a way to lead and advocate for science and STEM education by sharing your voice. We invite you to consider …
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Archive: Teacher Tip Tuesday: Distance-Learning Strategies, August 25, 2020
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How can we create equitable, distance-learning sensemaking (actively trying to figure out how the world works or designing solutions to problems) experiences for our students when it comes to asking them to use…
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Grassroots Environmentalism: Promoting inquiry-based learning through an outdoor education program
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Students of the Riverside Military Academy (RMA) came up with the idea of starting a grassroots environmental club and within a year had 50 members. This article explains how they began their focus and misson by…
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Reading & Writing Nonfiction with Children: Using Biographies to Learn about Science and Scientists
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Students are introduced to real life accounts of scientists in this fun and hands-on activity. Through biographies, students identify examples that reflect aspects of the nature of science and scientists. Pop-up books…
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Fossil Finders: Engaging All of Your Students Using Project-Based Learning
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Take a PBL approach to paleontology to engage even the most unmotivated of students.
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Extended Problem-Based Learning Improves Scientific Communication in Senior Biology Students
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This article describes a model of extended problem-based learning that instructed upper-level undergraduate students to focus on a single biological problem while improving their critical-thinking, presentation, and…
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Isopod Inquiry: Students learn experimental design by studying sowbug food preferences
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For any science teacher who has ever used slugs or snails for behavioral studies, sowbugs—also known as isopods or pillbugs—are a welcome alternative. This inquiry-based activity is an investigation of sowbugs'…
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Swivel Seating in Large Lecture Theaters and Its Impact on Student Discussions and Learning
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This paper compares two different designs of remodeled, large lecture-theater designs: one with traditional tiered rows and one with swivel seating to facilitate face-to-face discussions during lectures and the impact…
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