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Crosscutting Concepts as Productive Ways of Thinking
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Tips and techniques for creative teaching
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Studies on the effectiveness of clickers in undergraduate chemistry courses are mixed, and there is disagreement on how to effectively leverage clickers to improve student learning performance. To fill a gap in the…
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This paper highlights learning supports associated with genetics lessons that were implemented in a urban high school biology classroom. The supports provided access to science content for ELs, students with IEPs, and…
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We carried out a study of an instructional model that integrates flipped classroom with active learning, in-class activities into our biology course, using a mixed methods research design. According to the survey (n =…
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Safety Recommendations for Closing Out the School Year
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Mark Earth Day and Arbor Day With Fresh Lessons
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A physics laboratory instructor used action research to effectively implement a 5E instructional approach, which incorporated scientific practices. The instructor explored how to integrate the instructional approach…
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An Interview With Cognitive Scientist Lindsay Portnoy
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Cognitive scientists study how people learn. This type of knowledge can be applied in a diverse array of fields, ranging from advertising to journalism and academia. Lindsay Portnoy is a lecturer at Northeastern…
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Sphero Robots and the Periodic Table
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Students review the periodic table by coding robots.
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Climate Change Causes Extreme Weather Events: Yes, No, or Wrong Question?
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the Sun and stars. The probe is designed to uncover students’ ideas about the nature of stars and their recognition that the Sun is an average star…
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Re-imagining the Role of Families as Equal Partners in STEM Learning
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Modifying Traditional Labs to Target Scientific Reasoning
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This article showcases how a physics lab course was successfully redesigned to promote important reasoning abilities not explicitly addressed in the typical college setting. Student development of such abilities is…
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