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From:The Science Teacher (Vol. 82, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedWith rapidly evolving technology, the world is more connected than ever, and citizens around the globe can contribute to science like never before (Dickinson and Bonney 2012). Reflecting the growing capacity of citizen...
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From:The Science Teacher (Vol. 84, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis summer, on August 21, 500 million people across North America will experience one of the most beautiful astronomical phenomena: an eclipse of the Sun. It will be a "must teach" moment, when all students will want...
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From:Science and Children (Vol. 53, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedPhysical science is a natural fit for active, curious young children. Early childhood settings generally include spaces and materials that invite children to explore phenomena connected to the big ideas in this...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 60, Issue 24)Byline: Alejandra Dubcovsky I love the sciences. Because my father was a scientist, I grew up surrounded by talk of running gels, western blots, and poorly calibrated centrifuges. I desperately wanted to be a...
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From:Science and Children (Vol. 51, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedI write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see, and what it means. What I want and what I fear. -Norman Mailer As an elementary teacher, I realized the importance of reading,...
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From:The American Biology Teacher (Vol. 73, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedWe describe the implementation of "APPLE for the Teacher," an alternative education outreach program that augments teacher efforts in presenting specific AP Biology laboratory exercises and at the same time involves the...
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From:Science ScopePeer-ReviewedSeveral organizations in the scientific community have communicated a need for individuals to develop scientific literacy (AAAS 1993; National Academy of Sciences 1996; NSTA 2005). The skill to read and understand...
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From:The Science Teacher (Vol. 81, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedOctober 2014, Tips for Teachers Just Starting Out Putting the Science into Science Teacher After I made the transition from grad school to teaching, I missed doing real science. As a student, you're constantly...
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From:The Science Teacher (Vol. 84, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWe've been covering the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) standards in every issue since September. This month, we examine the final standard, called Creative Communicator, which requires students...
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From:Journal of College Science Teaching (Vol. 39, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWe systematically assessed media coverage of geoscience topics and recommend using fully indexed news sources as a guide for content selection and enhanced science literacy. Two of the biggest challenges for Earth...
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From:Science and Children (Vol. 48, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAs supervisors of undergraduate elementary education majors, we are often in the classrooms of local elementary schools, watching science instruction take place. Recently, we were disappointed when a fifth-grade field...
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From:Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly (Vol. 31, Issue 3)Career success for students in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields rests on access to ample opportunities for educational research and training, facilitated by strong mentor-mentee...
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From:Journal for General Philosophy of Science (Vol. 51, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedScientific research in the formal sciences comes in multiple degrees of formality: fully formal work; rigorous proofs that practitioners know to be formalizable in principle; and informal work like rough proof sketches...
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From:Journal of Foot and Ankle Research (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Research is a major driver of health care improvement and evidence-based practice is becoming the foundation of health care delivery. For health professions to develop within emerging models of health care...
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From:The American Biology Teacher (Vol. 73, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT We examined how college students' knowledge of evolution is associated with their self-described religious beliefs and the evolution-related content of their high school biology courses. On average, students...
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From:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 26, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn June 2009, the Pew Research Center conducted a survey of more than 1,000 randomly sampled American adults. Each participant took a brief quiz testing their science knowledge including one question that asked whether...
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From:The Science Teacher (Vol. 82, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThis article describes a nuclear chemistry unit on the Manhattan Project, a research effort that led to the development of the world's first nuclear weapons during World War II. The unit is appropriate for an...
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From:The Science Teacher (Vol. 80, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedWhat is the relationship between hypotheses, scientific theories, and scientific laws? Most students respond to this question with the common, everyday understanding: Hypotheses are educated guesses, theories are...
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From:Journal of College Science Teaching (Vol. 47, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedTwenty years ago, in the midst of much hand-wringing about a surfeit of PhDs in science and mathematics, many of them unable to get jobs in the Academy, Rethinking Science as a Career (Tobias, Chubin, & Aylesworth,...
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From:The American Biology Teacher (Vol. 72, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedFostering science literacy by engaging students as active participants and communicators of scientific ideas can enhance learning as well as a sense of personal investment. Science "zine" projects can be an effective...