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Editor's Roundtable: All Teachers Can Learn From Special Education Practices
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Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue.
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Favorite Demonstration: Learning the BCD-To-Seven-Segment Decoder By Counting Coins
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This activity helps instructors to demonstrate a method of converting seven-bit binary numbers to decimal numbers and vice versa.
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Case Study: Using Photographs as Case Studies to Promote Active Learning in Biology
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, think about how long it takes your students to read a thousand words. Case studies are effective and stimulating ways to teach a variety of subjects, including the biological…
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Does Active Learning Improve Students’ Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward Research Methods?
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We incorporated an active, collaborative-based research project in our undergraduate Research Methods course for first-year sports medicine majors. Working in small groups, students identified a research question,…
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Research and Teaching: Using Action Research to Improve Teaching and Student Learning in College
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An action research approach was used to examine revisions made to the design and delivery of a freshman zoology laboratory section. Because action research involves iterative cycles of planning, acting, observing, and…
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Optic Inquiry: Students investigate a simple anomaly to learn basic science skills
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Using an inquiry approach in the classroom is an effective teaching method. In this article, the inquiry-based lesson called "Magic in a Tube," helps students formulate questions, practice science skills, incorporate…
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An important goal of the current reform movement in science education is to promote scientific literacy in the United States, and scientific inquiry is at its heart. However, the National Science Education Standards…
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Online Concept Maps: Enhancing collaborative learning by using technology with concept maps
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In the early 1990s, the University of West Florida and IBM Latin America investigated establishing telecommunication links among schools. This arrangement—Project Quorum—included public and private schools throughout…
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Racing with the Sun: Students learn physics while designing a solar-powered vehicle
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Through this yearlong inquiry investigation, high school physics students design, create, and race a solar-powered vehicle. The design process helps students learn invaluable science, technology, mathematics,…
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