Cleaning Up the Environment: Students can learn important science concepts while providing valuable services to their communities

Journal Article | March 2005

Washington State now allows students to obtain a high school varsity letter in community service if they complete over 150 community service hours in a calendar year. With this in mind, the author has integrated…

Teaching with Dewey on My Shoulder: John Dewey's ideas about interaction and continuity contribute to the teaching and learning of science

Journal Article | October 1999

When John Dewey’s name appears somewhere, many people imagine a librarian inventing an organizing system for shelving library books, but this is a different Dewey. Here the author is talking about John Dewey (1859–1952…

Homestudy Assignments: An Experiment in Promoting Active Learning in Introductory Chemistry—Preparing Students for Today’s Cooperative Work Environment

Journal Article | January 1997

In this article, students are given "Homestudy Assignments." These are written assignments completed by teams of two or three students both inside and outside of class. The assignments had several benefits in addition…

Taking Science Online: Evaluating Presence and Immersion Through a Laboratory Experience in a Virtual Learning Environment for Entomology Students

Journal Article | August 2009

A 3–D virtual field trip was integrated into an online college entomology course and developed as a trial for the possible incorporation of future virtual environments to supplement online higher education laboratories…

Archive: Formative Assessment in Science- Using Students' Ideas to Inform Instruction and Promote Learning, May 2, 2011

Web Seminar | December 1969

This Web Seminar took place on May 2, 2011 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Presenting was Page Keeley, Senior Program Director at the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance (MMSA) and NSTA Author. Ms. Keeley…

Learn and Lead – Lunch Edition: The Future of Science Instruction: Why OpenSciEd is Leading the Way, July 21, 2025

Web Seminar | April 2025

Science education is evolving—and OpenSciEd is leading the way. Join us for Learn and Lead: The Future of Science Instruction, a powerful web seminar designed for education leaders, curriculum specialists, and…

In-service Inquiry: A professional development workshop helps in-service teachers bring inquiry-based learning to their classrooms

Journal Article | January 2002

Developing science process skills and participating in inquiry-based activities help students gain the foundation for job skills outside of school. Overall, this workshop was highly successful, and in-service teachers…

Is Teaching Instinctive? No, I'm Afraid Not: Adjusting Teaching Practices to Accommodate Student—Not Teacher—Learning Styles

Journal Article | February 1999

While there may be a strong human instinct to try to teach, how to teach is not instinctive—it’s habitual—and this leads to very different implications for the classroom and teacher preparation. College classroom…

Research and Teaching: Show Me the Way: Future Faculty Prefer Directive Feedback When Trying Active Learning Approaches

Journal Article | October 2017

In this study, the authors incorporate feedback as a key component of a pedagogical course for future faculty who had never taught or were currently novice teaching assistants. They studied (a) how future faculty’s…

Can Students Learn From Lecture Demonstrations? The Role and Place of Interactive Lecture Experiments in Large Introductory Science Courses

Journal Article | December 2006

There is little doubt that well performed lecture demonstrations play an important role in science teaching (Straits and Wilke 2006): for many students, exciting demonstrations are what keep them interested and…