Integrating Technology: Lens on Climate Change: Using Place-Based Learning to Explore Climate Change Effects

Journal Article | September 2017

This column shares how teachers use technology for assessment, student learning, or classroom management. This article describes a student-driven approach to learning and communicating about climate change, in which…

Why Do Fishermen Need Forests? Developing a Project-Based Learning Unit With an Engaging Driving Question

Journal Article | January 2018

Use driving questions and anchoring phenomena to capture students’ curiosity.

Deliberative Pedagogy in a Nonmajors Biology Course: Active Learning That Promotes Student Engagement With Science Policy and Research

Journal Article | February 2016

Deliberative democracy, a consensus model of decision making, has been used in real-life policy making involving controversial, science-related issues to increase citizen participation and engagement. Here, we describe…

Guest Editorial: The Next Generation Science Standards: Where Are We Now and What Have We Learned?

Journal Article | June 2015

Review 10 important lessons learned since the release of the NGSS nearly two years ago.

A Comparative Study of Instructor- and Student-Led Learning in a Large Nonmajors Biology Course: Student Performance and Perceptions

Journal Article | August 2014

This article discusses incorporating active learning techniques and how it relates to independent learning and instructor-directed classroom activities.

Research and Teaching: Training the Foot Soldiers of Inquiry: Development and Evaluation of a Graduate Teaching Assistant Learning Community

Journal Article | August 2014

This article outlines the development of interdisciplinary graduate teaching assistant learning communities and findings from the various forms of evaluation.

Redesigning the Water Rocket: An Engineering-Design Cycle for Integrating Science and Engineering Practices and Nature of Science Learning

Journal Article | October 2014

Examine a variety of aerodynamic factors that affect the distance traveled by a projectile.

Under Pressure: Activities with a vacuum pump (and some marshmallows) help students learn about pressure

Journal Article | January 2002

What would happen if a person went into space without a spacesuit? Before learning the answer students must first understand the forces—gravity and atmospheric pressure. This article describes various demonstrations…

Using Cooperative Learning to Introduce Undergraduates to Professional Literature: Assembling the "Jigsaw" Pieces in the Field of Environmental Communication

Journal Article | January 1999

The field of environmental communication focuses on how multidisciplinary science, natural resource management, and environmental policy are communicated to different audiences. This activity uses the "jigsaw" approach…