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Brain Awareness Day: A Service-Learning Experience in Neuroscience
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Three local colleges in the Lehigh Valley collaborate on a service-learning project called Brain Awareness Day to enhance neuroscience literacy among the public regarding the functions of the brain and benefits of brain…
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Idea Bank: A Resonance Tube Experiment Using "Boomwhackers"
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Bring the "sound of music" to your science classroom--this activity uses the lengths and fundamental frequencies of a set of resonance tubes to verify the expression for the relationship between these two quantities and…
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Undergraduate Geology Education—The Carleton College Experience
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At Carleton, students who discover geology as sophomores can start majoring by selecting from several courses in the second level and continuing on in a track that works. It also means that students who do not major in…
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The authors describe and assess a one-week mini-course-based undergraduate research experience” for the perceived value of its components and ability to meet course learning objectives, provide similar research benefits…
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Student-Designed Experiments: A Pedagogical Design for Introductory Science Labs
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Despite numerous calls for science education to be driven by authentic investigation, many laboratory experiences continue to consist of disconnected weekly units during which students carry out instructions that lead…
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Learning Experiences of University Biology Faculty: A Qualitative Pilot Study
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The study described in this article incorporates qualitative research through in-depth, individual, structured interviews with 12 biology faculty from two Midwestern universities to explore perceptions about how they…
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Students Own Their Introductory Chemistry Experience: Becoming an Element for a Semester
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Introductory science courses serve a population of students in the major as well as those students outside the discipline. In an effort to help this diverse population of students connect personally with the content of…
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A Science Fair Partnership: An Active Learning Experience for Teacher Candidates
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STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education is a national instructional priority. As part of Southeastern Louisiana University’s STEM Outreach Initiative, funded by a Shell Oil Company Foundation…
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Challenging Students with Experiments: Incorporating scientific investigations in the busy classroom
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Experimentation can be adapted for any science class and level. Incorporating authentic experimentation in the classroom supplements science curriculum with subjects students genuinely want to investigate.
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A Unique Interdisciplinary Science Research Experience for First-Year Students
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This article describes a first-year, seminar-style class in which, under the direction of an advisor, students engage in a semester-long research project.
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