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Combustion and a Jumping Flame
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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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Teaching Green Chemistry Through Student-Generated Open Educational Resources
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This article describes the implementation of a student-generated open educational resource project into a majors’ organic chemistry laboratory. This scaffolded semester-long project was organized into six phases and…
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Cornhole Predicts the Perfect Pitch
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The Engaging Value of Engineering Activities: Actionable Insights From Research
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Using a Game to Teach Invasive Species Spread and Management
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Invasive species are a major ecological and economic problem at the global scale, and education plays a major role in raising awareness and combating these species’ future spread. There are complex management and…
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NSTA and the Children’s Book Council Announce 2025 List of Top Science Trade Books for K-12 Students
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Chemical mnemonic devices have been designed to aid students in understanding chemical concepts in previous years. This has been done for concepts such as oxyanions, ozonolysis, tautomerization mechanisms in organic…
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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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Changes in Elementary Teachers’ Conceptions About Matter
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While research has investigated elementary teachers’ understanding of science content, such research is often limited to topics typically not addressed in elementary school curricula. Yet, research has illustrated that…
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Nonideal enrollment of nonbiology majors into biology majors courses serves as an impediment to academic success and negatively impacts rates of college course completion. In this Institutional Review Board (IRB)-…