How Can We Use Data to Predict the Length of a Shadow?

Lesson Plan | April 2021

Ride the Movies

Journal Article | February 2019

Apply science and engineering practices to design and build an amusement park ride based on a Hollywood film.

Who Does Science?

Journal Article | August 2020

Surface-X

Journal Article | December 2020

Making Science Personal

Journal Article | January 2021

General education college astronomy courses offer instructors both a unique audience and a unique challenge. For many students, such a course may be their first time encountering a stand-alone astronomy class, and it is…

Crafting and Critiquing Climate Change Evidence Arguments

Journal Article | August 2021

Monitoring Microplastics in Surface Water—A Pacing Guide for Grades 5–12

Journal Article | July 2023

Promoting STEM Persistence Through an Innovative Field Trip–Based First-Year Experience Course

Journal Article | December 2020

At our small liberal arts college, we recently introduced a field trip–based course as a requirement for all first-year science majors. This course, entitled “The Urban Ecosystem,” explores various aspects of science…

Earthworm Distribution in the Schoolyard Ecosystem

Journal Article | June 2020

Rethinking the Discussion on ‘Learning Loss’

Blog Post | February 2021

Force and Motion Ideas

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to comprehensively elicit students’ ideas about the relationship between force and motion. The list of possible answers includes several distracters that are based on learning…

Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, May 13, 2025

Reports Article | May 2025

Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, November 28, 2023

Reports Article | November 2023