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Editor's Roundtable: Creative connections
By integrating creative projects into their instruction, science teachers have the opportunity to awaken "creative expression and knowledge into their...
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Tried and True: How the brain visually perceives the world
The eyes are said to be the "mirror of the soul" or similiar to the "lens of a camera." Have you ever wondered how such a small feature of our anatomy...
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Undergraduate Research Communities: A Powerful Approach to Research Training
We applied the concept of learning communities, whereby students develop their ideas in cohort-based settings, to undergraduate research training. Th...
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Talking Science, Modeling Scientists
Do you want your students to share their investigation findings in a meaningful way? Or to communicate like real scientists do--beyond conducting inv...
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Commentary: Laboratory Science Teacher Professional Development
In 2004, the U.S. Secretary of Energy announced a new science education initiative to reinvigorate the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) involvement i...
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Editorial: A Change in Terrain or a Shift in Perspective?
Guess what? While you weren't looking, the world got flattened. At least, that's the conclusion of Thomas L. Friedman in his explosive book, The Worl...
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Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer Reading
Whether your summer includes travel to far away places or day trips to familiar haunts, this time of change should also be a time of professional grow...
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A Fifth Grader's Guide to the World
The challenge for today's elementary teachers is not whether but rather how to use computers to effectively teach students essential skills and concep...
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Assessing Student Understanding with Technology
Most science teachers are amazed when grading tests and quizzes, often wondering how and why students have reached a conclusion, particularly when stu...
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Research and Teaching: Active Learning Is Not Enough
In this article, the author examines the frequency of assessment and how it impacts learning in an undergraduate biology course employing a student-ce...
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Turning the Potential Liability of Large Enrollment Laboratory Science Courses Into an Asset
Data sharing among multiple lab sections increases statistical power of data analyses and informs student-generated hypotheses. This article describe...
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Information Literacy in Introductory Biology
Incorporating information literacy exercises into the science curriculum will help students to navigate through the myriad of information available in...