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Research and Teaching: Inquiry in the Community College Biology Lab

A qualitative analysis of students’ reactions and outcomes to a long-term inquiry experience in a freshman biology course shows positive results. St...

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Editor's Corner: The Answer to Extra Credit

The Science Teacher’s editor shares thoughts on the answer to extra credit assignments....

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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...

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Classroom Composting: Creating compost using an inquiry-based design

This article challenges students through a variety of questions to learn about the optimum conditions necessary for composting. The students had more ...

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Chapterless Science: Taking a new approach to presenting science material

Dividing a scientific discipline into sections or chapters of a book is not always the most effective way of presenting class material to students. Th...

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Worms on Ice: Exploring the mysteries of the elusive ice worm

Students and teachers can participate in ongoing scientific research through simple worm experiments in the classroom. During the latest JASON Project...

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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...

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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...

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Teaching Physics with Dynamic Simulation: Simulators connect science to everyday life

Dynamic simulation has great potential as a tool for teaching physics and general science. These simulators provide students with laboratories for exp...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...