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  • Mission INSPIRE

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    Students with visual impairments are often the only students at their school who read braille. They often do not participate in science fairs, in some cases because of low expectations on the part of educators and in…

  • Hearing All Voices to Promote Learning Orientation and Effective Collaboration

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    Motivation and collaboration intersect in important ways in a science classroom. One important motivational component of collaborative work is what students understand the goal of that work to be (Ames 1992). When…

  • Using iNaturalist to Support Place-Based Learning and Data Analysis

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    Often, we think that to learn about nature, students must be in a “natural” place to experience the environment, but this assumption can be problematic on multiple levels. Not all schools have the resources to take…

  • Inheritance: It’s More Complicated Than That

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    For the past 60 years, teaching and learning the science of inheritance and biological variation has largely been centered in Mendelian genetics. In classrooms, genetics instruction generally focuses on traits…

  • Career of the Month: Acoustician

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    Acoustics involves all aspects of sound, noise, vibration, and perception. It’s a large field that encompasses specialties such as architecture, underwater, biomedical, ultrasonics, and speech. Acousticians can work for…

  • Q: What Can My Students See During the Upcoming Solar Eclipses?

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    A: It depends on where you are located. But first let’s briefly review what happens during a solar eclipse and clear up a few popular misconceptions about solar eclipses. You probably know that a solar eclipse occurs…

  • Teaching Preservice Teachers the Water Cycle With a Conceptual Change Model

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    The purposes of this study were to examine preservice elementary teachers’ conception of the water cycle; determine if participating in a conceptual change–based role-play alters these conceptions; and ascertain if any…

  • Assessing Student Success in a Peer Assisted Learning Program Using Propensity Score Matching

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    The Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) program at Sacramento State was established in 2012 with one section supporting introductory chemistry. The program now serves 17 courses with high rates of students who receive a D or…

  • 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…

  • Using a Socioscientific Issues Approach in an Undergraduate Environmental Science Course

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    A perennial goal of science educators is to develop functional scientific literacy in their students, especially those who will not become professional scientists. This article provides an example of implementing a…

  • Student Self-Care in the Sciences

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    Instructor support is associated with various positive outcomes for students. Self-care (taking care of one’s physical, mental, and emotional health) has become a mainstream concept. Self-care may be one way for…

  • Learning by Listing

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    Undergraduate STEM students may be overwhelmed by the complex information they are exposed to during their education. Even so, there are a handful of fundamental and powerful concepts that could be identified for each…

  • Low-Level Learning

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    More than 8 out of every 10 college students are not STEM majors, yet we have little understanding about learning expectations for them. We used the results of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute BioInteractive learning…

  • Using Fiction and Nonfiction Readings in Climate Change Education

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    Facts about climate change are often ineffective in impacting people’s climate change beliefs or environmentally related behaviors. Multiple theories of environmental behavior use norms to foster behavior change.…

  • Using the Critical Response Process for Kinder, More Constructive Peer Review in Science Seminar Courses

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    Existing processes for academic peer review can yield unnecessarily harsh critiques that focus on any vulnerability rather than constructive feedback to improve the work. Efforts to improve the peer-review process…

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