Science 101: If Energy Is Neither Created Nor Destroyed, What Happens to It?

Journal Article | February 2014

This column provides background science information for elementary teachers. This month’s issue discusses energy.

Science Shorts: Is This Alive?

Journal Article | February 2014

This column provides classic classroom activities that emphasize science process skills. This month’s issue uses place-based education to teach students the living and nonliving components of the environment.

Safety First: Ensuring a Safer Outdoor Experience

Journal Article | February 2014

This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom. This month’s issue discusses safety during field experiences.

Methods and Strategies: Seeding Science in Elementary Schools

Journal Article | February 2014

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue descibes a school-university partnership that helps ensure the youngest students experience a rich science curriculum.

Assessment in Online Learning—It's a Matter of Time

Journal Article | February 2014

This article reviews how students in an online Earth and Space Science course interact with various online assessments.

Raising the Bar in Freshman Science Education: Student Lectures, Scientific Papers, and Independent Experiments

Journal Article | February 2014

This article presents the combination of three enhanced educational approaches for training future scientists. These methods incorporate skills generally not introduced in the freshman year: student-led blackboard…

Using the Draw-a-Scientist Test for Inquiry and Evaluation

Journal Article | February 2014

This article describes the use of the Draw-a-Scientist Test as both a model for inquiry and as a method of assessing the affective domain.

Examinations That Support Collaborative Learning: The Students' Perspective

Journal Article | February 2014

The authors used surveys and classroom observations to examine student reactions to two-stage exams, where students first do the exam individually and then redo it collaboratively.

Metacognition: An Effective Tool to Promote Success in College Science Learning

Journal Article | February 2014

This article describes a case study in which metacognition was introduced to undergraduate science (chemistry) classrooms.The aim of the study was to instruct educators how to incorporate metacognition in college…

Explorations in Integrated Science

Journal Article | February 2014

This article describes a third-year undergraduate course that focuses on multiscale modeling and protein folding and has as its primary goal the encouragement of students to integrate thinking across and beyond…

Editorial: Good Things

Journal Article | February 2014

The Journal of College Science Teaching’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.

Two-Year Community: Cultivating the STEM Transfer Pathway and Capacity for Research: A Partnership Between a Community College and a 4-Year College

Journal Article | February 2014

Summer research experiences have been identified as important vehicles for fostering the learning, skill development, and retention of undergraduates in the sciences. In the initiative described in this article,…

Case Study: A Picture Worth a Thousand Words? Making a Case for Video Case Studies

Journal Article | February 2014

This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. This month’s issue discusses video case studies.

Research and Teaching: Student Success Indicators Associated With Clicker-Administered Quizzes in an Honors Introductory Biology Course

Journal Article | February 2014

The authors describe a study in which an honors biology instructor implemented clickers as a mechanism for students to complete in-class quizzes.

Research and Teaching: Project-Based Instruction With Future STEM Educators: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Journal Article | February 2014

This study documented the means by which STEM educators experienced the mathematics and science associated with understanding lunar phenomena. The article reports how well STEM education graduate students interacted…