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Promoting Physical Science to Education Majors: Making Connections between Science and Teaching
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We address student attitudes toward physical science content knowledge and skills by modeling pedagogy appropriate for the K–8 classroom. Attitude measurements show that students are initially reticent in their approach…
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Games Students Play: Teaming up in physics class leads to cooperative learning
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The case for motivating students through cooperative learning has been made and supported throughout the last two decades. Two well-known cooperative learning techniques—Student Teams-Achievement Divisions (STAD) and…
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The authors designed a physics course for prospective elementary and middle school teachers to foster aspects of scientific thinking recommended in reform documents. Because the elementary school curriculum focuses…
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This study measures the effects of increased faculty–student engagement on student learning, success rates, and perceptions in a Physical Oceanography course. The study separately implemented two teaching methods that…
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This article presents implementation details and findings of a National Science Foundation Scholarship in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Program (S-STEM) consisting of many high-impact practices to…
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DNA as a Binary Code: How the Physical Structure of Nucleotide Bases Carries Information
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The DNA triplet code also functions as a binary code. Because double-ring compounds cannot bind to double-ring compounds in the DNA code, the sequence of bases classified simply as purines or pyrimidines can encode for…
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Video-Based Labs for Introductory Physics Courses: Analyzing and Graphing Motion on Video
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Video-based labs are a powerful tool for improving student understanding of one of the most difficult and important topics in physics: graphs. This article describes common student graphing difficulties, the history of…
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Preservice elementary teachers in a conceptual physics course were given multiple resources to use during several inquiry activities in order to investigate how materials were chosen, used, and valued. These students…