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Journal Article |
Digital cameras can provide added value to classroom data collection allowing the students to make visual connections between their hypotheses, data, and inferences. Digital data appears more concrete and "real" to…
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Liability of Science Educators for Laboratory Safety
Position Statement |
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An Adapted Journal Club Approach
Journal Article |
Students must be able to evaluate primary literature, yet few options exist within the undergraduate curriculum to develop the necessary skills. In this article, we offer an adapted journal club that provides students…
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Journal Article |
Integrating authentic research practices into introductory laboratory courses to prepare tomorrow’s scientists has become increasingly prevalent over the past decade. However, an incomplete understanding of the nature…
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Journal Article |
General education college astronomy courses offer instructors both a unique audience and a unique challenge. For many students, such a course may be their first time encountering a stand-alone astronomy class, and it is…
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Journal Article |
This study presents a quasi-experiment to assess differences in student performance and satisfaction between two different delivery modes—online and face-to-face education. We collected data from 747 (373 face-to-face…
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Lesson Plan |
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about decay and decomposers. The probe can be used to determine whether students recognize the need for a biological agent to break down once-living…
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Freebies for Science Teachers, September 2, 2020
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Focus on Physics: How E = mc2 Helps Us Understand Nuclear Fission and Fusion
Blog Post |
Nuclear physics has an undeserved reputation for being tough for students. This article may reduce this “toughness” by showing how Einstein’s familiar equation E = mc2 relates to the reductions in mass and enormous…
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New NSTA Book Shows How to Blend Science Standards and STEM to Develop Effective Classroom Materials
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Lesson Plan |
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the digestive system. The probe is designed to find out whether students realize a main function of the digestive system is to break food down into…
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Case Study |