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Tools of Engagement: Using Case Studies in Synchronous Distance-Learning Environments
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Faced with the challenges of addressing a variety of student learning styles, academic levels, and demographics, incorporating innovative learning strategies, attaining higher-level thinking skills, and offering new…
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A Journal-Club-Based Class That Promotes Active and Cooperative Learning of Biology
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A journal-club-based class has been developed to promote active and cooperative learning and expose seniors in biochemistry and cellular molecular biology to recent research in the field. Besides giving oral…
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Two Paper Airplane Design Challenges: Customizing for Different Learning Objectives
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This article describes two examples of how a common, underlying design task—designing a paper airplane—was modified to meet the needs of two very different college science courses. These cases illustrate both important…
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Active Learning in the Lecture Hall: A Nonlaboratory Science Course for the Nonscience Major
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In this article, the author modified a primarily lecture, general education course for nonscience majors to engage the students in a variety of active learning activities. Students' skills for cooperative learning were…
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Science Sampler: You can learn a lot from your dog
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Recently, dogs have been the focus of a great deal of scientific research. In fact, dogs were the inspiration for Professor Bruce Blumberg’s class, The Cognitive Dog: Savant or Slacker, at Harvard University. This…
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Research and Teaching: Promoting Student Learning in a Large General Chemistry Course
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Based on recent reports in the science education literature, curricular modifications were made to one section of a freshman-level general chemistry course. Assessment results indicate that these modifications resulted…
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Water: A Sticky Subject? Learning about the cohesion and adhesion properties of water
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In this activity, students learn that water particles (molecules) have a “sticky” property that allows water to overfill a container and that the strength of this property is altered with the addition of soap. When…
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Lessons Learned From a Summer Preparatory Program on Foundations in Physics and Calculus
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This article presents details about a summer instructional program created by physics graduate students who sought a chance to help students from the local community and to gain greater experience teaching science and…
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The "Old Dogs" Project: Prodded by Their Peers, Professors Learn New Tricks
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In this article, the authors describe a low cost, easily emulated project designed to improve classroom teaching methods. The arcane title supports the notion that "old dogs" (teachers with many years of experience) can…
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This paper describes the results of incorporating technology in the histology laboratory by using high-resolution video-imaging equipment (VIE). The study sought to determine if (1) the VIE would allow students to more…
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Using Social Networking Sites to Facilitate Teaching and Learning in the Science Classroom
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Connect students to information and each other as they learn how to access, retrieve, process, and communicate information.
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Research and Teaching: Team-Based Learning Enhances Performance in Introductory Biology
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Given the problems associated with the traditional lecture method, the constraints associated with large classes, and the effectiveness of active learning, continued development and testing of efficient student-centered…
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Tech Trek: Hang up and learn—Cell phones in the science classroom
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In some schools, cell phones have to be turned off or perhaps kept in lockers to avoid misuse. But the authors hope to demonstrate in this article how they can be used under supervision to assist learning. There is no…
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A Workshop Approach: Using learning centers to teach early childhood science
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The science workshop approach is a method of organizing learning centers in developmentally based primary programs. The approach centers on providing a series of meaningful experiences around core science concepts.…
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More Everyday Engineering: Putting the E in STEM Teaching and Learning (e-book)
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What makes a windup toy get up and go? How does an earbud operate? And why does the line you’re waiting in always seem the slowest? Get middle-schoolers engaged in the fascinating science behind familiar items with More…
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