NSTA Connections
March 2013
The Ethanol Project
Health Wise: Unplug to Power Up
February 2013
Reading the Ice
Stromatolites
Health Wise: Look Better, Feel Better
January 2013
A Science That Saves Lives
Design Practices and Misconceptions
Health Wise: Curbing Texting While Driving
December 2012
Flying Into Inquiry
Citizen Science in Your Own Backyard
Project Citizen
Be Your Own Groundhog
November 2012
Make Your Own Phylogenetic Tree
Chemistry Cook-Off
It’s All in the Particle Size
Health Wise: Better Grades Through Sleeping?
October 2012
Complexity From Simplicity
All Things Being Equal
Scientific Discoveries the Year I Was Born
September 2012
A Virtual Tour of Plate Tectonics
Now You're Cooking
Summer 2012
Making the Argument
Current Research
- Bodzin, A.M. 2011. The implementation of a geospatial information technology (GIT)-supported land use change curriculum with urban middle school learners to promote spatial thinking. Journal of Research in Science Teaching 48 (3): 281–300.
- Carlone, H.B., J. Haun-Frank, and A. Webb. 2011. Assessing equity beyond knowledge- and skills-based outcomes: A comparative ethnography of two fourth-grade reform-based science classrooms. Journal of Research in Science Teaching 48 (5): 459–485.
- Karelitz, T., E. Fields, A. Jurist Levy, A. Martinez-Gudapakkam, and E. Jablonski. 2011. No child left unqualified: how teachers and principals respond to the highly qualified mandate. Science Educator 20 (1): 1–11.
- Levin, D., and J. Richards. 2011. Learning to attend to the substance of students’ thinking in science. Science Educator 20 (2): 1–11.
- Marshall, J., J. Smart, and R. Horton, R. 2011. Tracking perceived and observed growth of inquiry practice: a formative plan to improve professional development experiences. Science Educator 20 (1): 12–22.
- McElhaney, K., and M. Linn. 2011. Investigations of a complex, realistic task: Intentional, unsystematic, and exhaustive experimenters. Journal of Research in Science Teaching 48 (7): 745–770.
- Quigley, C., K. Pongsanon, and V. Akerson, V. If we teach them, they can learn: Young students views of nature of science during an informal science education program. Journal of Science Teacher Education 22 (2): 129–149.
- Rushton, G.T., C. Lotter, C., and J. Singer. 2011. Chemistry Teachers’ Emerging Expertise in Inquiry Teaching: The Effect of a Professional Development Model on Beliefs and Practice. Journal of Science Teacher Education 22 (1): 23–52.
- Scalise, K., M. Timms, A. Moorjani, L. Clark, K. Holtermann, and P.S. Irvin. 2011. Student learning in science simulations: Design features that promote learning gains. Journal of Research in Science Teaching 48 (9): 1,050–1,078.
- Yerrick, R., J. Schiller, and J. Reisfeld. 2011. “Who are you callin’ expert?”: Using student narratives to redefine expertise and advocacy lower track science. Journal of Research in Science Teaching 48 (1): 13–36.
- Zwiep, S. G., W.J. Straits, K.R. Stone, D.D. Beltran, and L. Furtado. The integration of English language development and science instruction in elementary classrooms. Journal of Science Teacher Education 22 (8): 769–785.
April/May 2012
Las Rocas Nos Cuentan Su Historia [Rocks Tell Their Stories]
Hands-On Hydroponics
Taking the Leap
March 2012
Rock On!
What's Missing?
January 2012
Writing and Science Literacy
December 2011
It’s Your Fault!
Going Underground
Investigating Continental Margins
November 2011
The Science Fair: A New Look at an Old Tradition
October 2011
Science in the 21st Century: More Than Just the Facts
Secret in the Margins: Rutherford’s Gold Foil Experiment
September 2011
Adopt-a-Dino
What Students Really Want in Science Class
Avatar in the Science Classroom
Summer 2011
Hydrogel Beads: The New Slime Lab?
A Scientific World in a Grain of Sand
It’s Elemental!
Chromonoodles: Jump Into the Gene Pool
Simulating Science
April/May 2011
Fire and Ecological Disturbance
The Reasons for the Seasons
Science 2.0: Stop-Motion Mitosis
March 2011
Creating a College-Going Culture
February 2011
Antigenic Shift and Drift
Modeling Natural Selection
A Tale of Four Electrons
One Fish, Two Fish, Redfish, You Fish!
January 2011
The Affective Elements of Science Learning
How Much Carbon Is in the Forest?
Beyond Grading
December 2010
Wolves in the Wild
A Life Cycle Assessment of Biofuels
The Hudson River Plume
Why Do Athletes Drink Sports Drinks?
November 2010
The Inquiry Matrix
Exploring Osmosis and Diffusion
Model-Based Inquiry
October 2010
Self-Regulated Learning
Idea Bank: Skyping Science
Juan’s Dilemma
September 2010
Supporting Right-Brained Thinking
What Microbe Are You?
Summer 2010
A Virtual Circuits Lab
Generate an Argument: An Instruction Model
April/May 2010
Students for Sustainable Energy
Talk Like a Scientist
Leaving Their Legacy
Idea Bank: Lunar “Space Weather” Action Center
March 2010
Who’s in the Zoo?
Community-Based Inquiry Lessons
Make Your Own Digital Thermometer!
February 2010
Investigating Aquatic Dead Zones
Meet Us Outside
January 2010
Writing Better Lab Reports
Laboratory Notebooks in the Science Classroom
November 2009
Argument-Driven Inquiry
Examining Student Work
October 2009
Hurricane Katrina: A Teachable Moment
Idea Bank: Earth Systems in Silence
September 2009
Shrinking Our Footprints
What Happens to Cemetery Headstones?
The Science Behind Nanosunscreens
Teaching With Crystal Structures
Summer 2009
Idea Bank: Start a Classroom Library!
Helping New Science Teachers
April 2009
The Big Sky Inside
Stories in Science
Idea Bank: Vector, Vector—That’s Our Cry!
February 2009
The Interdisciplinary Study of Biofuels
The Potential Da Vinci in All of Us
Rev Your Engines!
December 2008
The Art of Physics:
“Life” in Movies:
October 2008
The Quiet Skies Project:
Teaching the Anatomy of a Scientific Journal Article:
September 2008
Whole-Class Inquiry Assessment:
Enzyme Inquiry:
January 2008
Thinking Like an Ecologist:
December 2007
Recycled Insect Models:
October 2007
Nemotodes: Model Organisms in High School Biology:
September 2007
A Cooperative Classroom Investigation of Climate Change:
March 2007
Scientific Discovery for All: