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Teacher to Teacher: The Steps of a Conceptual Storyline

This column provides practical advice from your peers. This month describes the steps involved in writing a conceptual storyline, a sequence of lesson...

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Scope on the Skies: Timely Motions of the Earth and Moon

This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. During the first few days of January, the Earth reaches perihelion, the closest it will come to ...

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Data Modeling for Preservice Teachers and Everyone Else

Although data modeling, the employment of statistical reasoning for the purpose of investigating questions about the world, is central to both mathema...

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Providing Opportunities for Argumentation in Science Exam Settings

This article explores undergraduates’ efforts to engage in scientific argumentation during exam settings....

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Integration, Authenticity, and Relevancy in College Science Through Engineering Design

An engineering design problem-solving framework was used to create a general chemistry lab activity focused on an important environmental issue—dead...

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Physics Meets Art in the General Education Core

This article describes a general education course offering, Physics and the Arts. During the development of this course, physics and arts faculty coll...

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Two-Year Community: Tools for Success: A Study of the Resources and Study Habits of General Chemistry I Students at Two Community Colleges

Recruitment and retention in the sciences is both difficult and crucial, especially in the community college setting. In this study, the resources use...

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Case Study: Skinny Genes? An Interdisciplinary Look at a Complex Behavioral Disorder

This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. T...

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Research and Teaching: Assessing the Effectiveness of Sustainability Learning

This study investigated the interaction of disciplinary and interdisciplinary learning in a team-taught, first-year, interdisciplinary sustainability ...

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Research and Teaching: Structure and Evaluation of a Flipped General Chemistry Course as a Model for Small and Large Gateway Science Courses at an Urban Public Institution

In this article, the authors describe their approach to flipping the General Chemistry sequence at two different colleges within the City University ...

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Research and Teaching: Many Paths Toward Discovery: A Module for Teaching How Science Works

Improving students’ understanding of how science works requires explicit instruction. Here, the authors test the efficacy of a module based on two p...

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Research and Teaching: SMASH: A Diagnostic Tool to Monitor Student Metacognition, Affect, and Study Habits in an Undergraduate Science Course

This study describes the development and implementation of an iterative diagnostic and intervention routine designed to elicit and quantitatively desc...

Book Chapter

Beyond the Egg Drop: Infusing Engineering Into High School Physics (Book Sample)

Problem: You’re eager to expand your physics curriculum and engage your students with engineering content but you don’t know how. Solution: Use th...

Book Chapter

Pasta Cantilever

In this activity, students are challenged to construct a cantilever that supports the greatest weight at the greatest distance from the edge of a desk...

Book Chapter

Cards to the Sky Gummy Bear Tower

In this activity, students use playing cards to build a tower that can withstand wind such that gummy bears can stand on top of it. This selection hig...