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This article explores results from a 3-year model of laboratory instruction, Project Synapse, that synthesized biology, chemistry, and communication curricula for first-year science majors at a STEM-focused university.…
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Children experience and grapple with the ongoing effects of climate change in their daily lives. While they did not cause climate change nor should they have to solve it, children deserve educational opportunities to…
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Communicating scientific findings is an accepted part of the research experience, but few science programs include explicit undergraduate curricula for developing or practicing oral science communication. Course-based…
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Collaborating for Communication
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An engineering challenge requires students to work together while providing an opportunity for assessing their learning styles.
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Careers in Science and Technical Communication
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This article provides practical guidance for science teachers to help students who love both science and writing, and are struggling to find a career that will allow them to combine these disparate talents and interests…
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Creating Direct Channels of Communication
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Biology students in a large-class, active-learning environment used e-mail and in-class written notes for student-instructor communication. Most students sent e-mail messages and about half were content-related.…
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Analyzing and Communicating Scientific Information
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Using collaborative techniques, case studies, and extensive assessment, students in the Towson Transition Course at Towson University learned to access, evaluate, and communicate scientific information. A statistically…
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The Early Years: Communicating About Collections
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Children love to collect all kinds of things, from sticks to colorful leaves to trading cards. These objects are special to children because they found the objects and chose them for a quality determined by them. For…
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Science 101: Do plants communicate?
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Oh yes. Sometimes their conversation is flowery, sometimes not. Plants with problems try to converse and get to the root of the problem, but if not, they have been known to stalk one another. This often creates a…