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Research and Teaching: Undergraduate Success—and Failure—in Completing a Simple Circuit
This research study was motivated by physics educators’ ubiquitous citing of the batteries and bulbs study (Thiberghien and Delacote, 1976) even tho...
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Creating a Student-Centered Physical Chemistry Class
Using guided reading materials in an upper-division college chemistry course, students assumed more responsibility for their learning. This paper desc...
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Favorite Demonstration: Seasonal Size Variations of Martian Polar Caps
This demonstration vividly illustrates seasonal size variations of Martian polar caps. It is particularly useful during the astronomy section of a phy...
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Most educators realize that copyright law could potentially impact their classroom activities but are confused by the underlying legal principles. Thi...
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Field Surveys of Amphibian Populations
Amphibian Research, a course offered at Saint Joseph’s College in Rensselaer, Indiana, introduces freshmen- and sophomore-level biology and environm...
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Blind Students: Facing Challenges in a College Physics Course
Visually impaired students with different educational backgrounds may differ in their analytical and mathematical preparedness, which presents unique ...
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How <em>Not</em> to Teach Historical Cases in Science
Not all methods of applying history to teaching science are valid. Rational reconstructions, in particular, present idealized and misleading models. S...
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Using problem-based learning and role-playing, students analyze the geological origins of the Galapagos Islands, their colonization, species formation...
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After reading a news story about two men who died in an accidental explosion while trying to make the controlled substance methamphetamine, students l...
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Using Journal Articles in an Environmental Biology Course
This article discusses how to use team learning and the interrupted journal case method to promote content, process, and application learning in an en...
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In this discussion case, parents must decide whether or not to enroll their sons in an experimental treatment program designed to alleviate the sympto...
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Many instructors think that by incorporating case study analysis into the science classroom they will sacrifice course content. The directed case meth...