Freebies for Science Teachers, October 6, 2020

Reports Article | September 2020

Using Models to Teach Science

Journal Article | February 2020

Why Does the Moon Look Like That Again?

Journal Article | September 2020

Community Ethnography

Journal Article | April 2020

Evaluating Lessons for Sensemaking Using the NSTA Sensemaking Tool

Professional Learning Unit | September 2022

The NSTA Sensemaking Tool (adapted from the research-based NGSS Lesson Screener) is designed to help educators be critical consumers of curricular materials as well as create and/or revise science lessons to reflect the…

Project-Based Learning: Principles to Sustain Student Learning and Teacher Change in Practice - Part 1

Professional Learning Unit | July 2023

Have you wanted to implement a Project-Based Learning (PBL) unit in your classroom? Would you like to introduce PBL curriculum in your school? Multiple Literacies in Project-Based Learning (ML-PBL), an open educational…

Re-imagining the Role of Families as Equal Partners in STEM Learning

Journal Article | December 2020

Studying Collisions

Journal Article | March 2022

Building a New Interdisciplinary Service-Learning Partnership Through Virtual Connections

Journal Article | March 2022

This article presents a synopsis of an interdisciplinary literacy-science, cross-country, fully remote service-learning (S-L) project prompted by and executed during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The article…

A Human-Centered Design Tool Kit for STEM-Based Capstone Courses

Journal Article | July 2022

In fall 2019, a food science instructor partnered with the design center at a large Midwestern university to create a student activity tool kit for integrating the Human-Centered Design (HCD) approach into a science,…

Using Structured Decision-Making in the Classroom to Promote Information Literacy in the Context of Decision-Making

Journal Article | July 2022

An important facet of college students’ science literacy and job market preparation is developing skills for finding and applying information to decision-making about complex real-world problems. We developed a…

Placemat Instructions

Journal Article | January 2023

Exploring Phenomena That Connect Science, Self, and Society

Journal Article | April 2023

The Importance of Partnership, Support, and Sustained Professional Development

Journal Article | October 2023

Why Are There Coral in the Cliffs?

Journal Article | January 2021