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Awards and Recognition Program
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Awards and Recognition Program Dare to Dream! Have you ever dreamed of yourself as a STAR and seeing your name up in lights? With 17 teacher award programs, your dream could become a reality. Did you know more than $80,000 in cash and prizes are just waiting to be claimed? We are excited to announce that…
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Exploring the Effects of a Neglected Area
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One of the major challenges of teaching science has been engaging students in discussions of concepts due to lack of perceived relevancy of topics to students’ individual goals and societal issues. Science has been…
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An Evolution in Teaching Natural Selection
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Accomodating Visually Impaired Students in Secondary Science
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Physical and life science disciplines emphasize how basic structural units influence function, yet it is challenging for students to understand structure-function relationships, particularly at molecular scales.…
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Teacher Spotlight: Roger Blevins
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Interdisciplinary Lessons on Energy and Entropy
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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. We argue that energy is an idea best taught in an interdisciplinary…
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Developing a Classroom Assessment Rubric
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The development and implementation of varied assessment practices is a major focus in higher education. Assessment benefits both students and teachers; it informs teachers about students’ learning and misconceptions,…
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Facilitating Departmental and Institutional Change for Expanding Undergraduate Research Experiences
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Increased sustainable access to undergraduate research opportunities, particularly for historically underrepresented populations, involves transforming departmental and institutional cultures, which is time-consuming…
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Taking the Office Hour Out of the Office
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Science classrooms across our campus have changed dramatically over the past 10 years as an increasing number of instructors have incorporated a variety of active learning techniques into their teaching practice, using…