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Science 2.0: Help Students Become Innovative Designers

This column shares web tools that support learning. The past three columns have described how teachers can implement the first three Empowered Learner...

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The Green Room: The Top Five Environmental Stories of 2016

This column focuses on making your teaching more environmentally friendly. In this month’s issue the author presents 2016's top environmental storie...

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Focus on Physics: When What You See Is What You Hear

This column helps teachers build an understanding of physical principles. This issue discusses the law of reflection....

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Health Wise: Why Teens Need the HPV Vaccine

This Q&A style column provides up-to-date information on current health topics—helping students (and teachers) make healthy choices. This month’s ...

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Idea Bank: Keep Current With a Journal Club

The Idea Bank provides tips and techniques for creative teaching, in about 1,000 words. Students select science articles to read and report on during ...

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Career of the Month: Television Writer

This column shares interviews with professionals using science in the workplace. This month’s issue describes Katherine Lingenfelter's career path t...

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Right to the Source: Why Scientists Write

Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress. This month's issue discusses a letter written by Alexander Graham Bell....

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What Makes Us Who We Are? Investigating the Chemistry Behind Genetics in an Interdisciplinary Course for Undergraduate Students

This article details the aim, development, and implementation of the Chemistry-Genetics Course Collaborative, a cotaught offering of a human genetics ...

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Digital Badges in Science: A Novel Approach to the Assessment of Student Learning

Digital badging is an innovative method of valid, evidence-based assessment that may be used to assess hands-on skills in undergraduate science labora...

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A Discipline-Specific Approach to the History of U.S. Science Education

Through a discipline-specific approach to a course on the history of science education in the United States, the authors have spurred the interest of ...

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Implementation of Peer-Reviewed Homework Assignments

In large, introductory courses, instructors and teaching assistants often struggle to provide detailed feedback on student homework in a timely manner...

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Sesame Street Picnic: An Introductory Activity to Claims, Evidence, and Rationale

Recent calls for reform in K–16 STEM education not only emphasize mastery of content, but also call for students to engage in the scientific practic...

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Research and Teaching: Using a Practical Instructional Development Process to Show That Integrating Lab and Active Learning Benefits Undergraduate Analytical Chemistry

The authors describe how a practical instructional development process helped a first-year assistant professor rapidly develop, implement, and assess ...

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Research and Teaching: Using Models From the Literature and Iterative Feedback to Teach Students to Construct Effective Data Figures for Poster Presentations

Analyzing, interpreting, and clearly presenting real data are skills all students should develop, majors and nonmajors alike. These process skills req...

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Research and Teaching: Virtually the Same: A Comparison of STEM Students’ Content Knowledge, Course Performance, and Motivation to Learn in Virtual and Face-to-Face Introductory Biology Laboratories

Biology I is a required course for many STEM majors and is often their first college-level laboratory experience. The replacement of the traditional ...