An Adapted Journal Club Approach

Journal Article | May 2022

Students must be able to evaluate primary literature, yet few options exist within the undergraduate curriculum to develop the necessary skills. In this article, we offer an adapted journal club that provides students…

That’s How the Kangaroo Bounces

Journal Article | August 2022

A growing number of Introductory Physics for Life Sciences courses have been developed to prepare biology, premedicine, and pre-health majors for cross-disciplinary connections between physical principles and biological…

An Argumentative Writing Prompt Model to Support Nonscience Major Students’ Learning in an Introductory Chemistry Course

Journal Article | July 2022

An argumentative writing prompt model is presented for use in a general chemistry class designed for nonscience major students. The purpose of this instructional model is to support students with rich experiences to…

Who Is Most Affected By COVID-19?

Journal Article | June 2021

Let’s Clear the Air

Journal Article | January 2021

Biosand Filters for Water Purification

Journal Article | February 2021

Peer-Designed Active Learning Modules as a Strategy to Improve Confidence and Comprehension Within Introductory Computer Science

Journal Article | July 2020

While research has demonstrated the links between active learning and student success, lecture remains a dominant instructional method within introductory STEM courses. In this project, we used the strategy of…

Visualize Your Pulse With Physical Computing

Journal Article | November 2022

Inquiry-Based Lab Finals

Journal Article | May 2023

Facilitating Conceptual Change by Engaging Students’ Preconceptions During College Science Classroom Instruction

Journal Article | January 2021

Whether to engage student preconceptions to facilitate conceptual change is an area of debate among conceptual change theorists. Here, we evaluate the efficacy of a preconceptions-based instructional sequence about…

Ectotherm ER: Frogs Under the Weather

Journal Article | February 2021

The Upcoming Solar Eclipses

Journal Article | October 2023

Got Covid-19 Cabin Fever?

Journal Article | January 2022

Research Project-Based Learning in Meteorology Using an Online Severe Weather Events Archive

Journal Article | July 2023

This article presents a semester-long, interdisciplinary project-based learning (PBL) suitable for secondary and postsecondary students enrolled in a second-semester (i.e., intermediate) meteorology course. This case-…

Use of a Linked-Course Model to Teach Scientific Writing to First-Year Undergraduates

Journal Article | February 2021

The ability to read and compose original scientific literature is critical to educating informed citizens, yet may be severely lacking in undergraduate curricula. We developed a linked course offering in fall 2017…