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Student-Constructed Weather Instruments Facilitate Scientific Inquiry

Students in introductory college science courses often have a simplified understanding of the scientific method. To introduce students to the comple...

By Cindy Shellito

Postsecondary

Journal Article

A Team-Taught Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminar With a Focus on Blood

First-Year Seminars (FYS) offer a unique mode of introducing college students to new topics, research practices, and approaches to learning that the...

By Adele J. Wolfson and Justin Armstrong

Postsecondary

Journal Article

A Learning Tool for Chemistry and Health Professions Students: Mnemonics for Writing Net Ionic Equations

Chemical mnemonic devices have been designed to aid students in understanding chemical concepts in previous years. This has been done for concepts suc...

By Angela L. Mahaffey

Postsecondary Chemistry Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

Evaluating Information: The Impact of Major, Class Standing, and Experience With Primary Literature

Social media platforms and other internet sites may propagate inaccurate or misleading information. This misinformation encourages speculation, rumo...

By Shawn Stover and Michelle Mabry

Postsecondary

Web Seminar

Archive: Science Update: Hubble's 30th Anniversary, April 29, 2020

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was launched into Earth orbit on 24 April 1990 by the Space Shuttle. A flaw in the primary mirror initially made it l...

Journal Article

Trust the Process

Tell the story of an important event that happened in your family. Tell the story of a place that is important to your family. Tell the story of how...

By Carrie Tzou, Daniel Rother, Ashley Braun, Elizabeth Starks, Meixi Ng, Enrique Suárez, Amanda Rambayon, Philip Bell, Don LaBonte, Amy Twito, Shawn Peterson, Sara Marie Ortiz, and Megan Bang

Informal Education Technology

Journal Article

Wings Over Water

The Wings Over Water (WOW) collaboration began with ospreys....

By Allison De Jong, Jenélle Dowling, Erick Greene, and Sharon Leigh Miles

Informal Education

Journal Article

Building Community With Educators

After a string of successes in our teacher professional development programs at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS), I recently began t...

By Robert Payo

Professional Learning old Teacher Preparation

Journal Article

Using Models to Teach Science

By Byung-Yeol Park, Laura Rodriguez, and Todd Campbell

High School Environmental Science NGSS Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

Arguing About a Chemical Change

Use a sample ACT writing prompt in an explore-before-explain instructional sequence to a 9th-grade physical science class to promote student learning ...

By Patrick Brown

High School Chemistry Literacy NGSS Teaching Strategies

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