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Science 2.0: Journaling in the Information Age
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This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue talks about cloud-based journaling.
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The Green Room: The Deadliest Infectious Diseases
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This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. This month’s issue talks about the deadly infectious diseases ebola, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
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The New Teacher's Toolbox: Teach Like It's "Shark Week"
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This column shares tips for teachers just beginning their career. This month’s issue discusses involving media and current events in your classes and teaching science topics that may be controversial.
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Health Wise: More Teens Are Abusing Human Growth Hormone
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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 teen use of synthetic human growth hormone.
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Safer Science: Flammables: A Hot Safety Issue
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This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses how to store and use flammable materials correctly.
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Career of the Month: Data Scientist
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This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Soyeon Park's career path to becoming a data scientist.
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Teaching Quantitative Reasoning for Nonscience Majors Through Carbon Footprint Analysis
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This article describes and assesses a laborastory exercise that has students calculate their "carbon footprint" and evaluate the impacts of various behavior choices on that footprint.
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Active Learning in the Atmospheric Science Classroom and Beyond Through High-Altitude Ballooning
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This article describes the implementation of high-altitude balloon research into a variety of undergraduate atmospheric science classes as a means of increasing active student engagement in real-world, problem-solving…
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Using Collaboration Between English and Biology to Teach Scientific Writing and Communication
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This article describes a model for a scientific writing and communication course.
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Too Long to Read: Assessing the Motivation Behind Graduate Student Attendance in Reading Groups
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Graduate-level reading groups serve as a primary forum for students to learn current and complex concepts in their field. Because graduate students lament that reading "abnormally long" articles discourage them from…
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Eliminating the Textbook: Learning Science With Cell Phones
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This article describes a study that compares student learning in an ecology course between a semester in which cell phones were used to access information.
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The authors describe four instructional modules with the goals of increasing student confidence, appreciation, and performance in both experimental design and data analysis.
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Research and Teaching: Midterm and First-Exam Grades Predict Final Grades in Biology Courses
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This article describes a study in which the authors analyzed the extent to which two standard forms of feedback, midterm and first-exam grades, correlated with final grades in several biology courses.
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This article describes a a comparison of student performance in a series of two introductory biology classes and one third-year class shows that students with graduate teaching assistant and undergraduate teaching…
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Idea Bank: Start the Year Off Green!
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With summer upon us, now is a good time to think about incorporating green practices in the year ahead. This Idea Bank presents a few tips to help decrease your classroom waste, increase recycling, and make students…
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