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Saving the Forest for the Trees
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Collaborative science projects you can join
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Learning About Coastal Zone Plants—Integrating Formal and Informal Teaching and Learning Practices
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Whether to engage student preconceptions to facilitate conceptual change is an area of debate among conceptual change theorists. Here, we evaluate the efficacy of a preconceptions-based instructional sequence about…
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Newspaper Physics for First-Year College Students
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This article describes and illustrates a physics course for first-year college students whose only knowledge of physics is that they do not like the subject. The physics content is driven entirely by what appears in…
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about seeds. The probe is designed to find out what students think most seeds need to germinate.
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Promoting STEM Persistence Through an Innovative Field Trip–Based First-Year Experience Course
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At our small liberal arts college, we recently introduced a field trip–based course as a requirement for all first-year science majors. This course, entitled “The Urban Ecosystem,” explores various aspects of science…
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about an Earth material, rocks. The probe is designed to determine whether students can distinguish between humanmade, “rocklike” materials and…
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Student-driven Stewardship Projects
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Learning About Culture and Sustainable Harvesting of Native Plants
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Incorporating Student-Centered Learning in an Ecosystems Course
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Student-centered learning broadly encompasses teaching approaches that shift the focus of instruction from teacher to student by placing an emphasis on what as well as how students want to learn. This approach allows…
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Social Justice in the Science Classroom
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Are We Recognizing the Sheer Power of Mother Nature?
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Student-Driven Citizen Science
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Investigating marine plastic pollution
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Exponential Growth and Doubling Time
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