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  • Teaching Green Chemistry Through Student-Generated Open Educational Resources

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    This article describes the implementation of a student-generated open educational resource project into a majors’ organic chemistry laboratory. This scaffolded semester-long project was organized into six phases and…

  • Rainfall, River Height, and Local Relevance

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  • Building Picnic Tables ... and Community

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  • STEM Education Within the West Point Experience

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    At conferences or meetings, West Point faculty are often asked, “What’s it like to teach at West Point?” To answer this question we present the unique model that West Point uses to bridge traditional higher education…

  • C2AST (Critical and Cultural Approaches to Ambitious Science Teaching)

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  • Learning the Temperature Dependency of Matter by Making Ice Cream

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  • Exploring the Effects of a Neglected Area

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    One of the major challenges of teaching science has been engaging students in discussions of concepts due to lack of perceived relevancy of topics to students’ individual goals and societal issues. Science has been…

  • Bringing Engineering Into Play

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  • Catching a Cold

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about infectious disease. The probe is designed to find out whether students use the germ theory to explain what causes an infectious disease like the…

  • NASA’s Universe of Learning

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  • Backward Redesign of a Nonmajors’ Biology Course at a Two-Year Technical College

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    Gwinnett Technical College (GTC), established in 1984, is the second-largest technical college in Georgia. As a two-year open-access college, GTC and other technical and community colleges are significant in educating…

  • Is It a System?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about systems. The probe is designed to find out whether students can recognize that things with parts that interact or influence each other are systems.

  • Iron Bar

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about atoms. The probe is specifically designed to determine whether students can use the idea of atoms to explain why a metal expands when heated.…

  • Thermometer

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about thermal expansion. The probe is designed to find out whether students attribute expansion of the space between molecules to the rise of the liquid…

  • Me and My Shadow

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about light and shadows. The probe is designed to find out students’ ideas about how shadows change throughout the day.

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