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Science 2.0: Help Students Become Innovative Designers
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This column shares web tools that support learning. The past three columns have described how teachers can implement the first three Empowered Learner Standards established by the International Society for Technology in…
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The Green Room: The Top Five Environmental Stories of 2016
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This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. In this month’s issue the author presents 2016's top environmental stories plus some of the best websites for environmental news.
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Focus on Physics: When What You See Is What You Hear
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This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. This issue discusses the law of reflection.
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Health Wise: Why Teens Need the HPV Vaccine
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This Q&A style column provides up-to-date information on current health topics—helping students (and teachers) make healthy choices. This month’s issue discusses the need for students to receive the HPV vaccine.
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Idea Bank: Keep Current With a Journal Club
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The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. Students select science articles to read and report on during a monthly Journal Club. Students look forward to the activity each…
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Career of the Month: Television Writer
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This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Katherine Lingenfelter's career path to becoming a television writer.
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Right to the Source: Why Scientists Write
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Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress. This month's issue discusses a letter written by Alexander Graham Bell.
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This article details the aim, development, and implementation of the Chemistry-Genetics Course Collaborative, a cotaught offering of a human genetics course with an honors introductory chemistry course.
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Digital Badges in Science: A Novel Approach to the Assessment of Student Learning
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Digital badging is an innovative method of valid, evidence-based assessment that may be used to assess hands-on skills in undergraduate science laboratories, in research laboratories, and in fieldwork. The authors have…
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A Discipline-Specific Approach to the History of U.S. Science Education
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Through a discipline-specific approach to a course on the history of science education in the United States, the authors have spurred the interest of college science faculty and future high school science teachers as…
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Implementation of Peer-Reviewed Homework Assignments
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In large, introductory courses, instructors and teaching assistants often struggle to provide detailed feedback on student homework in a timely manner. This article describes a peer-reviewed homework system that…
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Sesame Street Picnic: An Introductory Activity to Claims, Evidence, and Rationale
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Recent calls for reform in K–16 STEM education not only emphasize mastery of content, but also call for students to engage in the scientific practice of making evidence-based claims, or scientific argumentation. However…
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The authors describe how a practical instructional development process helped a first-year assistant professor rapidly develop, implement, and assess the impact on her Analytical Chemistry course caused by three changes…
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Analyzing, interpreting, and clearly presenting real data are skills all students should develop, majors and nonmajors alike. These process skills require lots of practice coupled with targeted feedback from instructors…
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Biology I is a required course for many STEM majors and is often their first college-level laboratory experience. The replacement of the traditional face-to-face laboratory experience with virtual laboratories could…
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