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Exploring the Intersections of Interdisciplinary Teaching, Experiential Learning, and Community Engagement: A Case Study of Service Learning in Practice
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Culhane, Jennifer; Niewolny, Kim; Clark, Susan; Misyak, Sarah – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2018
In 2009, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) called for more interdisciplinary and community-engaged approaches to teaching and learning in the agricultural and life sciences to better respond to the food system challenges of the 21st century. As a result, institutions from across the nation have responded with a number of experiential learning…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Interdisciplinary Approach, Agricultural Education, Biological Sciences
Design of a Dynamic Undergraduate Green Chemistry Course
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Kennedy, Sarah A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2016
The green chemistry course taught at Westminster College (PA) incorporates nontraditional teaching techniques and texts to educate future chemists about the importance of using green chemistry principles. The course is designed to introduce green chemistry concepts and demonstrate their inherent necessity by discussing historical missteps by the…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Undergraduate Students, Environmental Education, Chemistry
Promoting Shifts in Preservice Science Teachers' Thinking through Teaching and Action Research in Informal Science Settings
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Wallace, Carolyn S. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of an integrated experiential learning and action research project on preservice science teachers' developing ideas about science teaching, learning, and action research itself. The qualitative, interpretive study examined the action research of 10 master's degree students who…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Action Research, Preservice Teachers, Science Instruction
Classroom Response System-Mediated Science Learning with English Language Learners
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Langman, Juliet; Fies, Carmen – Language and Education, 2010
We report on a case study examining the effects of a technology adaptation on patterns of discourse in a sheltered English high school science unit on electricity. The focus here is on how the tool, a classroom response system (CRS), affected access to and participation in classroom discourse with regard to developing science literacy among…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Educational Technology, Scientific Literacy, English (Second Language)
Incorporating Service-Learning, Technology, and Research Supportive Teaching Techniques into the University Chemistry Classroom
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Saitta, E. K. H.; Bowdon, M. A.; Geiger, C. L. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2011
Technology was integrated into service-learning activities to create an interactive teaching method for undergraduate students at a large research institution. Chemistry students at the University of Central Florida partnered with high school students at Crooms Academy of Information Technology in interactive service learning projects. The…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learning Activities, Kinetics, Service Learning
Real Learning, Real Work. School-to-Work as High School Reform. Transforming Teaching Series.
Steinberg, Adria – 1998
This book examines and illustrates the process of transforming school-to-work into real learning for real work. In chapter 1, guidelines are presented for designing project-based learning programs that are both academically rigorous and grounded in community and workplace realities, and the attempts of three very different high schools to develop…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis