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Disequilibrium: How Heat Affects the Density of Water
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This column shows how to use discrepant events to confront misconceptions. This month’s discrepant event illustrates what happens when a container filled with warmer, less dense water is placed on top of a container…
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Listserv Roundup: Four Effective Ways to Improve Laboratory Management
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This column shares recent conversations taken from the NSTA listserv community about current science education topics.This month’s column focuses on laboratory-related advice from the NSTA listservs.
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Science for All: Kinesthetic Learning in Science
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This column shares strategies for increasing student engagement. This month's topic describes creating a classroom environment where students can be in motion. The authors include their favorite ways to get students…
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Teacher to Teacher: Transitioning to Three-Dimensional Learning With Evidence Statements
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This column provides practical advice from your peers. Incorporating three-dimensional learning in the classroom requires teachers to change how they present lessons and assessments to students. This article shows…
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Scope on the Skies: Vocabulary of the Skies
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This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month's issue provides a list of astronomical terms that students can apply to events that they can witness this summer.
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The authors reorganized sections of their nonmajors biology course using current issues in biology and society as a premise to promote coherence among course content and emphasize the relevance of biological concepts to…
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The Windwalker Project: An Open-Ended Approach
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Students in a beginning level undergraduate classical mechanics course engaged in collaborative inquiry through the Windwalker Project. The aim of this project was for students to create a free-standing movable…
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It is envisaged that small-group exercises as part of a large-group session would facilitate not only group work exercises (a valuable employability skill), but also peer learning. In this article, such a strategy to…
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Geoscience Videos and Their Role in Supporting Student Learning
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A series of short (5 to 7 minutes long) geoscience videos were created to support student learning in a flipped class setting for an introductory geology class at North Carolina State University. This study sought to…
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The authors created a Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL) program focused on improving student performance in high-risk STEM courses. Our PALs are modeled after the Peer-Led Team Learning program, which has been shown to…
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To engage effectively with contemporary water-related challenges with scientific and social dimensions, students need to understand the properties of water and the nature of scientific processes and practices. However,…
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The authors compare student learning and perception data from astronomy, physics, and geology courses taught in a traditional classroom with individual desks to the same classes taught in a large auditorium.
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Collaborative activities in the area of science need to incorporate the co-critiquing of a flawed external source, with appropriate scaffolding to also benefit students with low self-regulation levels by mediating…
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Research and Teaching: A Comparison of Long-Term Knowledge Retention Between Two Teaching Approaches
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The purpose of the research in this article was to test assumptions regarding the effectiveness of reform-based instructional approaches to facilitating knowledge retention in students. We conducted an experimental…
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This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. This month’s issue discusses the importance of identifiying first-generation college students and helping them become…
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