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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, May 21, 2024
By Debra Shapiro
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Using Collaborative Digital Summary Tables to Impact Student Engagement and Learning
This manuscript reports on the impact of using collaborative digital summary tables on student engagement and learning. First, traditional summary tab...
By Grace Buchholz and Pradeep Maxwell Dass
Journal Article
Easing into Socioscientific Issues and Critical Science Literacy
Including SSIs in the classroom can be a daunting task. To make this task more manageable, we have developed a strategy to easily create short modules...
By Mitchell Klocke and Jerrid W. Kruse
Journal Article
Undergraduate institutions serve as stepping stones to a student’s career. Teaching and learning in the science classrooms requires quality and inte...
By Aditi Sengupta, Nallely Delara, Joyce Barahona, and Justin Garcia
Journal Article
A Residential Learning Community for Enhancing STEM Education: Program Design and Lessons Learned
There continues to be a concern regarding sustained recruitment and retention of students in STEM majors. Although the rate of attrition in these majo...
By Jessica M. Fautch
Journal Article
Communicating scientific findings is an accepted part of the research experience, but few science programs include explicit undergraduate curricula fo...
By E. Austin Leone and Donald P. French
Journal Article
An introductory physics course may be run like a video game, where students have an almost unlimited number of attempts to demonstrate their competenc...
By Minjoon Kouh
Journal Article
Creating a Buzz About Community-Engaged Research
School districts across the United States are actively exploring avenues to aid elementary-aged Gifted and Talented (GT) students in conducting studen...
By , , , ,
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Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences for Laboratory Learning in the Life Sciences
Laboratory learning in the life sciences is historically centered around following recipe-like instructions to complete activities with defined outcom...
By ,
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Outdoor Teaching and Learning in Natural Spaces and Outdoor Classrooms
On a humid, sunny day in late July, a group of middle school science teachers closed out three days of teacher professional development (PD) on a natu...
By Samantha Lindgren, Meghan McCleary, Susan Gasper, Amanda Nieves, Kara Stengren, and Amira Shabana
Journal Article
How many times have you found yourself sitting in a cafeteria or classroom staring at a professional development PowerPoint being presented by someone...
By Adriana E. Martinez and Alejandra O. Martinez
Journal Article
Hearing All Voices to Promote Learning Orientation and Effective Collaboration
Motivation and collaboration intersect in important ways in a science classroom. One important motivational component of collaborative work is what st...
By Pei Pei Liu, Sharon Taylor, Ann Colwell-Johnson, Alexandra Lee, David McKinney, Christopher J. Harris, Lisa Linnenbrink-Garcia, Gwen C. Marchand, and Jennifer A. Schmidt
Journal Article
Academic food security aims to provide students with sufficient access to knowledge (one key academic nutrient) in order to limit intellectual hunger....
By Thomas M. Onorato, Nathalie Oulhen, Gerardo Reyes, Stephany Foster, Cosmo A. Pieplow, Janet E. Rollins, Jacqueline A. Brashears, Claudette Davis, Ian Alberts, Ingrid D. Veras, and Gary M. Wessel
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Quantitative reasoning, although included in most science courses, can be challenging to teach. In this article, we explore whether cooperative learni...
By Man-Yin Tsang, Lisa Tutty, and Carl-Georg Bank