It's Dark So Early!

Journal Article | December 2020

Broadening STEM to Include Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Contexts

Professional Learning Unit | September 2025

Broadening STEM to include agriculture and natural resource management leverages students’ funds of knowledge and supports meaningful STEM learning.

Investigating Earth’s Interactions

Journal Article | May 2020

Measuring Data Skills in Undergraduate Student Work

Journal Article | February 2021

Data literacy, or students’ abilities to understand, interpret, and think critically about data, is an increasing need in K–16 science education. Ocean Tracks College Edition (OT-CE) sought to address this need by…

Landslides

Journal Article | February 2021

The Building Blocks of Language

Journal Article | October 2017

Renewable or Nonrenewable?

Lesson Plan | July 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about Earth’s natural resources. The probe is designed to find out if students can distinguish between renewable and nonrenewable natural resources.

The Greenhouse Effect

Lesson Plan | July 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the greenhouse effect. The probe is designed to reveal whether students confuse the greenhouse effect with other environmental concerns or lump the…

Investigating Urban Trees

Journal Article | March 2019

Mobile geospatial technologies enable high school students to engage in authentic scientific data collection and analysis that promote spatial-thinking and reasoning skills, as well as problem-solving in a school’s…