Journal of College Science Teaching articles from July 2006

Journal of College Science Teaching archives from July 2006

The Distant Exploration of Wolves.(technology in science education)
July 1, 2006... Byline: Todd Campbell Radio telemetry data available via the internet are used to facilitate long-term inquiry projects. Through these projects, students gain a deeper understanding of scientific inquiry and the nature of science, while...

Models for Integrating Technology in Higher Education.
July 1, 2006... Byline: Gregory MacKinnon and Peter Williams Institutions that place laptops in the hands of every student offer unique opportunities to integrate technology into instruction. The following is a description of how various technologies have...

Field Botany and Creative Writing.
July 1, 2006... Byline: Keith Killingbeck Merging science and writing to enhance both subjects was the objective of a venture known as Plant Notes. At first, teacher-written notes served as the inspiration for this writing assignment. Later, eclectic...

Knowledge Retention of Exercise Physiology Content Between Athletes and Nonathletes.
July 1, 2006... Byline: Brian Clark, Collin Webster, and Marvin Druger Based on the idea that learning is linked to personal relevance, this study examined knowledge retention of exercise physiology content between college athletes and nonathletes. No...

Undergraduate Research Communities.
July 1, 2006... Byline: Scott Kight, John J. Gaynor, and Sandra D. Adams We applied the concept of learning communities, whereby students develop their own ideas in cohort-based settings, to undergraduate research training. This creates powerful research...

Phylogenic Reconstruction as a Broadly Applicable Teaching Tool in the Biology Classroom.
July 1, 2006... Byline: Matthew L. Julius and Heiko L. Schoenfuss This laboratory exercise introduces students to a fundamental tool in evolutionary biology-phylogenetic inference. Students are required to create a data set via observation and through...

Reading Questions.(science reading)
July 1, 2006... Byline: Charles Henderson and Alvin Rosenthal College science teachers know that students get the most out of class if they have completed the assigned reading. To reinforce this expectation, we ask our introductory physics students to...

A Change in Terrain or a Shift in Perspective?(The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Byline: Ann Cutler Guess what? While you weren't looking, the world got flattened. At least, that's the conclusion of Thomas L. Friedman in his explosive book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. Friedman...

What Makes It Science?(education)
July 1, 2006... Byline: Cecily Cannan Selby "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking." Albert Einstein (1950) "Science is not a mechanical, but a human progress, and not a set of findings, but a search for them."...

E-mail from Socrates.(communication)
July 1, 2006... Byline: Clyde Freeman Herreid Subject: Case Studies Date: 3/15/06 From: Socrates@ElysianFields.com To: herreid@buffalo.edu My Dear Professor Herreid: I hope that you do not mind my contacting you by e-mail. I am apprised that...

One Hot Demonstration: The Urban Heat Island Effect.(experiment)
July 1, 2006... Byline: Brian R. Shmaefsky Demonstrations are most successful as a teaching tool when they can link a scientific principle to a real-life application of the knowledge. When posed as an inquiry activity, classroom demonstrations reinforce...

Assessment Results Following Inquiry and Traditional Physics Laboratory Activities.
July 1, 2006... Byline: Joel Arthur Bryan Editor's Note: Due to a clerical error, this article was originally published with the incorrect author data. The correct author is Joel Arthur Bryan, and his contact information is below. Preservice...

What They Don't Know.(science education)
July 1, 2006... Byline: Donald P. French When you read the title, your first thought was probably about the undergraduates you are teaching and perhaps some "common scientific knowledge" that they should have acquired in high school. Perhaps you started...