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Archive: Teacher Tip Tuesday: Have you Daily Do-ed? New Sensemaking Lesson plans from NSTA, March 30, 2021

NSTA now has sensemaking lesson plans to support the Framework vision for science education and the focus on ALL students. These sensemaking tasks tar...

Middle School Elementary High School Postsecondary General Science

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Freebies for Science Teachers, March 16, 2021

By Debra Shapiro

Middle School Early Childhood Elementary High School Postsecondary Pre-service Teachers Preschool Biology Careers Crosscutting Concepts Disabilities Distance Learning Earth & Space Science Engineering General Science Inclusion Instructional Materials Lesson Plans Life Science Literacy News NGSS Phenomena Physical Science Physics Preservice Science Education Research Science and Engineering Practices STEM Teaching Strategies Technology

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Freebies for Science Teachers, March 2, 2021

By Debra Shapiro

Middle School Early Childhood Elementary High School Postsecondary Preschool Biology Careers Chemistry Computer Science Curriculum Distance Learning Engineering Environmental Science General Science Instructional Materials Interdisciplinary Lesson Plans Life Science Literacy News Physical Science Science and Engineering Practices STEM Teaching Strategies Technology

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Archive: Write from the Start, March 11, 2021

Have you read great articles in the NSTA journals that changed or added to the ways you and your students do science for the better? You could inspire...

Postsecondary Elementary High School Middle School General Science

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From the Field: Events and Opportunities, February 23, 2021

By Debra Shapiro

Middle School Elementary High School Postsecondary Aerospace Biology Careers Curriculum Earth & Space Science Environmental Science General Science Instructional Materials Life Science Mathematics News NGSS Physics Professional Learning old Science and Engineering Practices STEM Teaching Strategies

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Use of a Linked-Course Model to Teach Scientific Writing to First-Year Undergraduates

The ability to read and compose original scientific literature is critical to educating informed citizens, yet may be severely lacking in undergraduat...

By Evan Lampert and J. Stephen Pearson

Postsecondary General Science Literacy Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Students Taught by a First-Time Instructor Using Active-Learning Teaching Strategies Outperform Students Taught by a Highly-Regarded Traditional Instructor

In this paper we put forth a model for physics course reform that uniquely uses proven, research-based active-learning strategies to help students imp...

By Colin S. Wallace, Edward E. Prather, John A. Milsom, Ken Johns, and Srin Manne

Postsecondary Assessment Curriculum Teaching Strategies

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Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences Spanning Two Semesters of Biology Impact Student Self-Efficacy but not Future Goals

Course-based undergraduate research is promoted as an equitable strategy for providing the benefits of research experiences to a larger, more diverse ...

By Allison Martin, Adam Rechs, Thomas Landerholm, and Kelly McDonald

Postsecondary Biology Research Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Measuring Data Skills in Undergraduate Student Work

Data literacy, or students’ abilities to understand, interpret, and think critically about data, is an increasing need in K–16 science education. ...

By Jessica Sickler, Erin Bardar, and Randy Kochevar

Postsecondary Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies Technology

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Responsive Teaching in Online Learning Environments

Online teaching and learning have become widespread in higher education over the past two decades, and accelerated during the pandemic. Although onlin...

By Young Ae Kim, Lisa Rezende, Elizabeth Eadie, Jacqueline Maximillian, Katelyn Southard, Lisa Elfring, Paul Blowers, and Vicente Talanquer

Postsecondary Curriculum Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies Technology

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From the Field: Events and Opportunities, February 9, 2021

By Debra Shapiro

Middle School Elementary High School Postsecondary Biology Earth & Space Science Engineering Equity General Science Inclusion Interdisciplinary Life Science Literacy News Professional Learning old STEM Teaching Strategies

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From the Field: Events and Opportunities, January 26, 2021

By Debra Shapiro

Middle School Elementary High School Postsecondary Biology Computer Science Curriculum Earth & Space Science Engineering Environmental Science General Science Instructional Materials Interdisciplinary Life Science Literacy News Professional Learning old STEM Teaching Strategies

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Taking the Office Hour Out of the Office

Science classrooms across our campus have changed dramatically over the past 10 years as an increasing number of instructors have incorporated a varie...

By Patrick Cafferty

Postsecondary Crosscutting Concepts Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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Practice Makes Better

Practice effects are ubiquitous human phenomena that have been scientifically studied for over half a century. They are also among the most directly a...

By Jeff Shrager

Postsecondary Biology Phenomena Teaching Strategies