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Formative Assessment Probes: Seeing the Light
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This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue discusses students' preconceptions related to the reflection of light.
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Science Sampler: Inquiry goes outdoors—What can we learn at the pond?
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The Oregon 4-H Wildlife Stewards program has been training teachers and volunteers to convert school grounds to education sites by constructing schoolyard wildlife habitats since 1997. The publication What Can We Learn…
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This laboratory exercise introduces students to a fundamental tool in evolutionary biology--phylogenetic inference. Students are required to create a data set via observation and through mining preexisting data sets.…
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Field Surveys of Amphibian Populations
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Amphibian Research, a course offered at Saint Joseph’s College in Rensselaer, Indiana, introduces freshmen- and sophomore-level biology and environmental science majors to investigative field research. Students learn to…
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Scope on Safety: Bloodborne pathogens—Be prepared, be protected
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Malaria, Lyme disease, Epstein-Barr syndrome, meningitis, syphilis, hepatitis B and HIV/AIDS—what do all of these diseases have in common? These belong to a group of over 100 microorganisms categorized as bloodborne…
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Case Study: A Case of Respiratory Distress
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This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. This clinical case study pertaining to a patient with medication-…
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Elementary students must be challenged to ask good questions and develop inquiring attitudes. A well-known paper towel investigation gains new life and prepares students for their middle and high school years.
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Children are naturally curious and passionate about taking care of the world around them. To capitalize on these interests, the unit described in this article was the result of a schoolwide theme entitled People and the…
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Fostering Inquiry through Problem-Based Learning
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Students learn the role of genetics counseling and gene testing in the identification and treatment of cystic fibrosis. University researchers team up with a high school teacher to plan and implement problem-based…
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We have all sat in classes in which a teacher made a difficult or abstract concept understandable by using an analogy. Science classes are full of abstract or challenging concepts that are easier to understand if they…
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The Trouble with Textbooks: Examining issues in science textbook selection
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Previous studies show that most science teachers use science textbooks for most of their instructional time and this has been the norm for many years. So, what can effective science teachers do to overcome the…
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Scope on the Skies: Urban Legends
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Urban legends become widespread from people simply not asking “Are you sure?” or looking into the topic and learning more before making a decision. But urban legends are also a great way to teach students to become good…
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Favorite Demonstration: The Rules of Research
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Demonstrations are wonderful educational strategies for reinforcing and stimulating learning. They are highly instructional as well as entertaining if suitably incorporated into lectures and laboratory sessions.…
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Nature Journaling: Enhancing Students' Connections to the Environment Through Writing
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This article describes how the author shared her passion for nature with her sixth-grade students through nature journaling and how her students gained a better understanding of the natural world.
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Unlocking Reading Comprehension with Key Science Inquiry Skills
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As secondary science teachers, we must remember that scientific literacy cannot be attained without fundamental literacy--the ability to read and comprehend textual information and write competently about the subject…
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