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Community Service

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Community Service

Service learning provides a novel learning experience for science students while furnishing a service to the community. The implementation and assessm...

Favorite Demonstration: The Rules of Research

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Favorite Demonstration: The Rules of Research

Demonstrations are wonderful educational strategies for reinforcing and stimulating learning. They are highly instructional as well as entertaining if...

Biology of Women

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Biology of Women

The importance of a course that teaches about the biology of women is discussed. This type of course was developed while the authors attended the Wome...

Case Study: <em>Not</em> an Old Person’s Disease

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Case Study: <em>Not</em> an Old Person’s Disease

This article describes a case study done in sections. Students first read a scenario and then write down and discuss answers to questions provided by ...

Eye on Audience

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Eye on Audience

In their team-taught science writing courses, the authors use a series of assignments aimed at specific “real-life” audiences and designed for dif...

Tracking Development

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Tracking Development

In the spring 2000 semester, elementary education preservice teachers at Penn State Harrisburg designed and implemented a long-term, interdisciplinary...

Mentoring Students in an Introductory Science Course

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Mentoring Students in an Introductory Science Course

To improve success levels of students enrolled in anatomy and physiology (A & P), an introductory science course at Indiana University Northwest, a me...

Physics Careers Web Site: Expanding College Women’s Perceptions of Physicists’ Lives and Work

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Physics Careers Web Site: Expanding College Women’s Perceptions of Physicists’ Lives and Work

Twenty college women used a Physics Careers Web site that aligned profiles of the college’s physics alumnae with the curriculum of introductory phys...

Computer Analogies

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Computer Analogies

Computer science analogies can aid the understanding of gene expression, including the storage of genetic information on chromosomes and the fate of g...

Rubric for Content Classification

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Rubric for Content Classification

Are teaching strategies such as collaborative learning, student-centered classrooms, and guided inquiry always appropriate? How do we decide what topi...

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