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How Can Wildfires Lead to Mudslides?

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Archive: Science Update: Exploring Seamounts of the Atlantic and Pacific, June 23, 2022

Our ocean is filled with numerous seamounts, guyots, and other volcanic features that profoundly influence tectonics, ecosystems, and ocean currents. ...

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How Can Computational Modeling Help Explain and Design Solutions to the Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups?

By Scott E. Grapin, Daniel Wendel, Alison Haas, and Okhee Lee

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How Can Computational Modeling Help Explain How Different Groups of People Are Affected When COVID-19 Spreads Through a Community?

By Scott E. Grapin, Daniel Wendel, Alison Haas, and Okhee Lee

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How Can Computational Modeling Help Explain the Spread of COVID-19?

By Scott E. Grapin, Daniel Wendel, Alison Haas, and Okhee Lee

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Science Notebooks in Student-Centered Classrooms

Thinking made visible: That’s what happens when elementary students record their thoughts in science notebooks. This practical guide shows how noteb...

By Jessica Fries-Gaither

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Is a Framework of Support Enough?

While undergraduate research is known as a high-impact practice, little research has been conducted for the online educational setting. Early research...

By Emily Faulconer, Brent Terwilliger, Robert Deters, and Kelly George

Curriculum Research Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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An Examination of Constructivism, Active Learning, and Reflexive Journaling and Their Independent and Combined Effects on Student Acceptance of Biological Evolution

Instruction that increases acceptance of evolution is essential to effective biology instruction, but instruction about evolution is not consistently ...

By Clinton Thomas Laidlaw, Seth M. Bybee, Steven Shumway, Thomas Heath Ogden, Steven Peck, and Jamie L. Jensen

Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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STEM Faculty Institute

As change agents at our university, we sought to facilitate a transition within our STEM college toward more extensive use of evidence-based instructi...

By Richard E. West, Jamie L. Jensen, Michael Johnson, Jennifer Nielson, Rebecca Sansom, and Geoffrey Wright

Curriculum Preservice Science Education STEM Teacher Preparation

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Examining Perspectives of Teaching Among Biology Teaching Assistants

Recent reform efforts in postsecondary science teaching have called for shifts in instructional methods to include more evidence-based instructional p...

By Joshua W. Reid and Emily G. Weigel

Biology New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Teaching Strategies

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Integrated Concentration in Science

The Integrated Concentration in Science (iCons) 4-year program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst was designed to promote interdisciplinary ST...

By Stephanie Purington and Martina Nieswandt

Curriculum New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation

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E–6 Preservice Teachers and Elementary Science Teaching

The study assessed the science teaching confidence of preservice teachers in teaching elementary science by addressing two research questions: (1) Did...

By Mamta Singh

Pre-service Teachers Preservice Science Education Teacher Preparation Teaching Strategies

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A Flipped Classroom Approach and Digital Learning in an Undergraduate Molecular Biology Course

Teaching modalities such as Flipped Classroom Approach (FCA) are becoming increasingly popular in higher education. FCA requires that instructional co...

By Andreas Kakarougkas and Reham Abdellatif

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How can ecosystems survive without sunlight?

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