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Appendix: Example Clicker Questions from Undergraduate Science Courses (m26432)
Maintainers: UBC Carl Weiman Science Education Initiative, CU Science Education Intiative
Keywords: clicker, personal response system, science education
Summary: This module gives specific examples of useful clicker questions from various science courses.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 68.97%
Revised: 2009-07-01
Revisions: New
The Nature of Humanities and Social Science Data (m14159)
Maintainers: Marie Wise, American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences
Subject: Social Sciences, Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 54.46%
Revised: 2006-12-11
Revisions: New
Government-Funded Science: Vannevar Bush and the National Science Foundation (m14356)
Keywords: Basic Science, cold war science, history of science, National Science Foundation, National Science Policy, Vannevar Bush
Summary: A brief history of the National Science Foundation and Vannevar Bush's vision of "Science, The Endless Frontier."
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 62.87%
Revised: 2007-02-20
Revisions: New
Teaching Science to Young Children:Practical Advice (m14527)
Keywords: activities, education, eperiment, experimental, experimentally, learning, practical, science, teach, teacher, teaching
Summary: Traditionally, in England at least, science has not been taught formally to young children in a thorough systematic way. Adults who are middle aged or older now, frequently had very little science education, if any at all. Nowadays things have changed considerably for the better, but this does mean that primary school teachers find themselves ... effective way.
Subject: Social Sciences, Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 88.84%
Revised: 2007-05-15
Revisions: New
Teaching Science to Children. Can we see in the dark? (m14444)
Keywords: Dark, Darkness, Education, learning, Light, light source, Science, see, seeing, Sight, teacher, teachers, teaching
Summary: This module ... science to young children. The intended age range is 5 - 7 year olds. Many children live is modern cities and have never experienced total darkness. They often believe that they are able to see in the dark and do not understand the difference between no light and very little light. This module ... to see.
Subject: Social Sciences, Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 90.34%
Revised: 2007-04-14
Revisions: New
Clicker Resource Guide -- An Instructors' Guide to the Effective Use of Personal Response Systems (Clickers) in Teaching (m21239)
Maintainers: CU Science Education Intiative, UBC Carl Weiman Science Education Initiative
Keywords: clicker, personal response system, science education
Summary: The original of the Clicker Resource Guide, prepared by staff of the CU Science Education Initiative and the UBC Carl Wieman SEI. This module is a placeholder where the entire resource guide may be downloaded while the contents of the guide are being imported to the Connexions document language.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 22.65%
Revised: 2009-07-01
Revisions: 2
Clicker Resource Guide -- References (m26439)
Maintainers: CU Science Education Intiative, UBC Carl Weiman Science Education Initiative
Keywords: clicker, personal response system, science education
Summary: This module contains general and cited references in the Clicker Resource Guide.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 17.89%
Revised: 2009-07-01
Revisions: New
Frequently Asked Questions About the Use of Clickers and Clicker Questions (m26443)
Maintainers: UBC Carl Weiman Science Education Initiative, CU Science Education Intiative
Keywords: clicker, personal response system, science education
Summary: This module addresses frequently asked questions about the use of clickers.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 34.55%
Revised: 2009-07-01
Revisions: New
Multiple goals of using clickers (m26446)
Maintainers: UBC Carl Weiman Science Education Initiative, CU Science Education Intiative
Keywords: clicker, personal response system, science education
Summary: This module gives an overview of the goals of using clickers in the classroom.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 18.83%
Revised: 2009-07-01
Revisions: New
Using clickers in the classroom -- Coverage of material (m26452)
Maintainers: CU Science Education Intiative, UBC Carl Weiman Science Education Initiative
Keywords: clicker, personal response system, science education
Summary: This module explains that students engaged in learning through the use of clickers may take longer to fully understand the material. Often instructors who use clickers effectively later decide to reduce the amount of material covered.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 28.76%
Revised: 2009-07-01
Revisions: New
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