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Few students enter community college science classrooms having experience with, or being proficient in, using evidence to explain scientific phenomena. Therefore, the authors used a claim-evidence-reasoning framework to…
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Citizen Science: Navigate Classroom Citizen Science Throughout the School Year with Journey North
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This column highlights formal and informal science research projects that students can join and contribute to by gathering and sharing data. Journey North invites students to serve as scientists while they construct a…
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A large research university developed a program that incorporates multiple forms of student-centered programming with a focus on research. Learning Environment and Academic Research Network (LEARN) is a living-learning…
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Two-Year Community: A 3+8 Model of Undergraduate Research for Community College STEM Majors
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This article describes the implementation of an innovative undergraduate research model for students attending a two-year institution. It gives students an opportunity to engage in undergraduate research at nearby four-…
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Journal writing was introduced as a means to assess student learning and acceptance of evolutionary science in a nonmajors’ biology course taught at a community college. Fourteen weeks of instruction were performed,…
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The Effectiveness of a Case Study-Based First-Year Biology Class at a Black Women’s College
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The authors used a case study-based approach in the introductory biology course at Spelman College. The course taught to entering freshmen was divided into three modules—ecology, evolution, and biodiversity, each…
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This article presents a framework for a geomicrobiology course design that has produced impressive gains in students’ contextual knowledge (e.g., Felder and Brent 2004a). The approach centers on the design and execution…
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Teaching Science in the Two-Year College: An NSTA Press Journals Collection (e-book)
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Two-year colleges are critical to science education’s future—in fact, some data indicate that half of future science teachers will take their first years of science at a two-year school. To address the unique challenges…
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Find Out Why: Use this program during this year's National Science and Technology Week
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Find Out Why is the flagship publication of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Science and Engineering Outreach Programs. Each issue asks a question that is shaped around children’s interests and explores…
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Archive: Are your Lab SOPs in Place for a Safer School Year?, September 16, 2021
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As the 2021–2022 school year approaches and things are getting closer to “normal,” it’s time to re-establish our STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) spaces (for the purposes of this web seminar, STEM spaces…
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