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  • A Water Wheel Challenge!

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  • Integrated Concentration in Science

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    The Integrated Concentration in Science (iCons) 4-year program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst was designed to promote interdisciplinary STEM collaboration in the solution of real-world problems and encourage…

  • Warming waters

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    Astronomy throughout the year

  • Ecosystem Cycles

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the transfer of matter and energy in ecosystems. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that only matter is cycled through an…

  • A balloon that does not burn

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    Using discrepant events to confront misconceptions

  • Facilitating Departmental and Institutional Change for Expanding Undergraduate Research Experiences

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    Increased sustainable access to undergraduate research opportunities, particularly for historically underrepresented populations, involves transforming departmental and institutional cultures, which is time-consuming…

  • Research Project-Based Learning in Meteorology Using an Online Severe Weather Events Archive

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    This article presents a semester-long, interdisciplinary project-based learning (PBL) suitable for secondary and postsecondary students enrolled in a second-semester (i.e., intermediate) meteorology course. This case-…

  • Is It a Rock? (Version 2)

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about an Earth material, rocks. The probe is designed to determine whether students can distinguish between humanmade, “rocklike” materials and…

  • Modifying Traditional Labs to Target Scientific Reasoning

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    This article showcases how a physics lab course was successfully redesigned to promote important reasoning abilities not explicitly addressed in the typical college setting. Student development of such abilities is…

  • Sphero Robots and the Periodic Table

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    Students review the periodic table by coding robots.

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