A Dialogue of Life: Integrating Service Learning in a Community-Immersion Model of Preservice Science-Teacher Preparation

Journal Article | June 2008

Dubbed a “dialogue of life,” community immersion in preservice science-teacher education aims at providing a true-to-life and empowering opportunity for prospective science teachers (both elementary and secondary) to…

The Great Viscosity Race: Using the 5E Model to Make Connections Between Properties of Matter and Viscosity

Journal Article | March 2014

Determine if a liquid's viscosity affects the rate at which it flows.

Research and Teaching: A Performance Enhanced Interactive Learning Workshop Model as a Supplement for Organic Chemistry Instruction

Journal Article | December 2010

In this study, the authors describe a Performance Enhanced Interactive Learning (PEIL) workshop model as a supplement for organic chemistry instruction. This workshop model differs from many others in that it includes…

Science Sampler: Eratosthenes visits middle school—Assessing the ability of students to work with models of the Earth

Journal Article | March 2009

In the exciting, “out of this world” activity described here, students measure the Earth using meter sticks while measuring their shadows in two distant locations. To obtain the size of the Earth, students discover the…

Teacher’s Toolkit: Promoting and supporting scientific argumentation in the classroom—The evaluate-alternatives instructional model

Journal Article | August 2009

This article describes an instructional model that science teachers can use to promote and support student engagement in scientific argumentation. This model is called the evaluate-alternatives instructional model and…

Science Sampler: Deal me in—Using playing cards to model the periodic table of elements

Journal Article | November 2010

Unfortunately, the terms “resource deprived” and “science teacher” are too often paired. Gaining access to inexpensive materials to teach with serves both teachers and students well, and simple materials do not…

Favorite Demonstration: The Brine Shrimp as a Model Organism for Biology—Arthropods Useful in Demonstrating Properties of Organisms

Journal Article | February 1997

Biology lectures expounding the properties of organisms can easily be enhanced with a living demonstration model organism—the large brine shrimp is one that students find interesting. This article features…