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How Does a Rocket's Recovery System Deploy?

Middle School Is Lesson Plan

Web Seminar

Archive: Fall 2022: Developing a Competitive Application for Shell Teaching Awards, November 7, 2022

Shell Science Teaching Award: This award recognizes one outstanding classroom science teacher (K–12) who has had a positive impact on his or he...

Middle School Elementary High School General Science

Web Seminar

Archive: Science Update: Is Cancer Inevitable? July 14, 2022

What should teachers, their students, and the general public know about the current state of cancer diagnoses, research, and treatments, and what oppo...

Middle School Elementary High School Informal Education Postsecondary Biology General Science Life Science STEM

Journal Article

Using Human-Centered Design to Enhance the Guest Experience at the Dallas Arboretum

By Rob Rouse, Dara Rossi, and Dustin Miller

Informal Education Postsecondary Professional Learning STEM Teacher Preparation

Journal Article

Connecting Educators Through Equitable and Reflective Practice

By Karen A. Woodruff

Equity Professional Learning STEM Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

An Adapted Journal Club Approach

Students must be able to evaluate primary literature, yet few options exist within the undergraduate curriculum to develop the necessary skills. In th...

By Melissa Eslinger, Sydney Alekseyev, and Helen Schroeder

Pre-service Teachers Interdisciplinary Literacy Pedagogy Preservice Science Education

Journal Article

Developing a Classroom Assessment Rubric

The development and implementation of varied assessment practices is a major focus in higher education. Assessment benefits both students and teachers...

By Chandrani Mishra, Loran Carleton Parker, and Kari L. Clase

Pre-service Teachers Assessment Pedagogy Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

New Community Creation Through a Shared Biology-Chemistry-Communication Laboratory Model for First-Year STEM Majors

This article explores results from a 3-year model of laboratory instruction, Project Synapse, that synthesized biology, chemistry, and communication c...

By Margery Gardner, Neal Abrams, Gregory McGee, and Elizabeth Hogan

Biology Chemistry Interdisciplinary Labs STEM

Journal Article

A Model for a Data Analysis– and Literature-Intensive Undergraduate Course

This article describes the use of literature to broaden students’ skills in content comprehension, data analysis, modeling, and productive scientifi...

By Karen Resendes

Assessment Interdisciplinary Literacy Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

Personal Characteristics Influencing College Readiness of Hispanic Students in a STEM Gateway Course, First-Semester General Chemistry

This study is an exploratory comparison of 69 Hispanic students enrolled in first-semester general chemistry (Chem I) who attended either a Hispanic-S...

By Adrian Villalta-Cerdas, Anton Dubrovskiy, Deborah Rush Walker, Blain Mamiya, G. Robert Shelton, Cynthia B. Powell, Susan Broadway, Rebecca Weber, and Diana Mason

Chemistry Equity Inclusion Multicultural Social Justice STEM

Journal Article

Investigating Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs About Teaching and Learning Science

To inform teacher education programs, it is imperative to uncover preservice teachers’ (PSTs) implicit and tacit beliefs about teaching and learning...

By Ezgi Yesilyurt

Postsecondary Pre-service Teachers Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

Self-Regulated Learning Strategies for the Introductory Physics Course With Minimal Instructional Time Required

Self-regulated learning (SRL) is the metacognitive aspect of learning that goes beyond learning content and skills. With SRL, students are aware of th...

By Stephanie Toro

Postsecondary Assessment Learning Progression Teaching Strategies

Journal Article

Interdisciplinary Lessons on Energy and Entropy

This article presents ideas and narratives of an experiment on the concept of energy developed for an honors seminar on energy and a mechanics course....

By Mika Munakata, Ashwin Vaidya, and Dirk Vanderklein

Postsecondary Climate Change Interdisciplinary Physical Science

Journal Article

Social Justice Service-Learning at an HBCU

Integrating social issues into biology courses may be of particular interest for educators seeking to create inclusive science environments that suppo...

By Nastassia N. Jones and Francesca M. Mellieon-Williams

Biology Equity Social Justice