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“Science flavored” poetry offers an aesthetic way to explore spaces between facts. This poem, through recursively introducing a central metaphor—a mockingbird—may encourage new ways to think about teaching science. Important context for the poem is this: a cohort of about 250 students arrived at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in east Tennessee on a beautiful day in June, 2016, ready to start their summer research experience.

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  1. Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

    Arthur J. Stewart

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Stewart, A.J. Mockingbirds. Cult Stud of Sci Educ 14, 255–257 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-018-9860-6

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