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Using Light Stable Isotopes to Assess Stream Food Web Ecology in a General Ecology Laboratory Course
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Direct linkCarroll, Hannah M.; Houston, Derek D.; Ankerstjerne, Suzanne; Wanamaker, Alan D., Jr. – Journal of Biological Education, 2021
Stable isotopes in natural materials provide a powerful way to study energy flow in many systems and are widely used in fields such as archaeology, ecology, forensics, geochemistry, geology, oceanography, palaeoecology and palaeoclimatology. Based on the manner in which stable isotopes fractionate in natural systems, they allow scientists to…
Descriptors: Ecology, Science Instruction, Food, Earth Science
Nathan A. Quarderer; Leah Wasser; Anne U. Gold; Patricia Montaño; Lauren Herwehe; Katherine Halama; Emily Biggane; Jessica Logan; David Parr; Sylvia Brady; James Sanovia; Charles Jason Tinant; Elisha Yellow Thunder; Justina White Eyes; LaShell Poor Bear/Bagola; Madison Phelps; Trey Orion Phelps; Brett Alberts; Michela Johnson; Nathan Korinek; William Travis; Naomi Jacquez; Kaiea Rohlehr; Emily Ward; Elsa Culler; R. Chelsea Nagy; Jennifer Balch – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2025
Today's data-driven world requires earth and environmental scientists to have skills at the intersection of domain and data science. These skills are imperative to harness information contained in a growing volume of complex data to solve the world's most pressing environmental challenges. Despite the importance of these skills, Earth and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Earth Science, Environmental Education, Science Education
Fargo, Hailley M.; Linares-Gray, Rosalinda H. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
Many librarians conduct research in higher education by studying the undergraduate students with whom they work. Instead of research on students, this paper argues the need for library and information science (LIS) research with, for, and by students. It shows why librarians should explore collaborative partnerships with student-researchers to…
Descriptors: Librarians, Educational Research, Undergraduate Students, Cooperation
Justin Shaffer; Arik Ringsby – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2024
High structure courses ask students to be active participants in the learning process with preclass content acquisition and assessment, in-class active-learning exercises, and after-class review assignments. Although faculty may suggest certain strategies for success in high structure courses, it is unknown what students find valuable and what…
Descriptors: Success, Science Education, Engineering Education, Academic Achievement
Avena, Jennifer S.; McIntosh, Betsy B.; Whitney, Oscar N.; Wiens, Ashton; Knight, Jennifer K. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2021
Problem solving is a critical skill in many disciplines but is often a challenge for students to learn. To examine the processes both students and experts undertake to solve constructed-response problems in genetics, we collected the written step-by-step procedures individuals used to solve problems in four different content areas. We developed a…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Metacognition, Genetics, College Science
Download full textRudolph, Heather A.; Schwabe, Anna; Johnson, Vanessa – HAPS Educator, 2018
Instructors struggle with the amount of information they are expected to teach in the limited number of hours that are available in undergraduate human anatomy and physiology laboratories and students struggle with how to learn the terminology. When a snowstorm closed our campus, labs were cancelled for five of our fourteen lab sections. The…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Anatomy, Physiology, Vocabulary
Patterson, Brian; Serna, Mario; Gearba, M. Alina; Olesen, Robert; O'Shea, Patrick; Schiller, Jonathan; Emanuel, David; Sell, Jerry F.; Burns, M. Shane; Leveille, Michael D.; Dominguez, Armand R.; Gebhard, Brian B.; Huestis, Samuel E.; Steele, Jeffrey – Physics Teacher, 2020
According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, a clock runs more slowly if it is close to a large gravitating object. This principle was highlighted in the movie "Interstellar," in which the main character spends several hours on a planet orbiting a massive black hole, and returns to find that his young daughter has become an…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Science Experiments, Scientific Concepts, Films
Leatherman, Judith L.; Cleveland, Lacy M. – Journal of Biological Education, 2020
The flipped classroom is a teaching innovation in which instructional content is delivered out of the classroom, often via videos, and the class period is used for application of the course material. While the popularity of the flipped classroom is growing exponentially, its benefits have not been extensively studied. In this study we compared…
Descriptors: Performance Factors, Undergraduate Students, Blended Learning, Active Learning
Duke, Jessica R.; Holt, Emily A. – Environmental Education Research, 2022
To develop targeted climate change curricula, it is imperative to understand how students perceive and observe the localized effects of climate change. Our work used a quantitatively driven, parallel mixed methods research design to study potential factors that contribute to undergraduate biology students seeing the local effects of climate…
Descriptors: Climate, Natural Resources, Undergraduate Students, Biology
Casagrand, Janet; Semsar, Katharine – Advances in Physiology Education, 2017
Here we describe a 4-yr course reform and its outcomes. The upper-division neurophysiology course gradually transformed from a traditional lecture in 2004 to a more student-centered course in 2008, through the addition of evidence-based active learning practices, such as deliberate problem-solving practice on homework and peer learning structures,…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Curriculum Design, Physiology, Curriculum Development
Larsen, Molly C.; Perkins, Russell J. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
A low-cost, time-resolved spectroscopy experiment appropriate for third year physical chemistry students is presented. Students excite o-methyl red in basic solutions with a laser pointer and use a modular spectrometer with a CCD array detector to monitor the transient spectra as the higher-energy cis conformer of the molecule converts back to the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Chemistry, Physics, Science Laboratories
Jessica Duke; Emily A. Holt – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2024
Psychological distance (PD) can be a barrier to how students perceive climate change impacts and severity. Localizing climate change using place-based approaches is one way instructors can structure their curricula to help combat students' PD, especially from a spatial and social viewpoint. We created a novel classroom intervention that…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Learning Activities, Climate, Place Based Education
Mordacq, John C.; Drane, Denise L.; Swarat, Su L.; Lo, Stanley M. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2017
In recent years, commissions and reports have called for laboratory courses that engage undergraduates in authentic research experiences. We present an iterative approach for developing course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) that help students learn scientific inquiry skills and foster expert-like perceptions about biology. This…
Descriptors: Student Research, Undergraduate Students, Science Instruction, College Science
Wilcox, Bethany R.; Lewandowski, H. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2017
Laboratory courses represent a unique and potentially important component of the undergraduate physics curriculum, which can be designed to allow students to authentically engage with the process of experimental physics. Among other possible benefits, participation in these courses throughout the undergraduate physics curriculum presents an…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Physics, Science Instruction, Longitudinal Studies
Wilcox, Bethany R.; Lewandowski, H. J. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
The existence of gender differences in student performance on conceptual assessments and their responses to attitudinal assessments has been repeatedly demonstrated. This difference is often present in students' preinstruction responses and persists in their postinstruction responses. However, one area in which the presence of gender differences…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes, Physics
