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Saving the Forest for the Trees
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Collaborative science projects you can join
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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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Student-driven Stewardship Projects
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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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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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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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Social Justice in the Science Classroom
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Are We Recognizing the Sheer Power of Mother Nature?
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Exponential Growth and Doubling Time
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Debunking Myths of Standards-Based Grading
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Student-Driven Citizen Science
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Investigating marine plastic pollution
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Using discrepant events to confront misconceptions
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