Hurricane Season

Journal Article | August 2019

Science and current events

Turtles in Turmoil

Case Study | November 2021

Observing Environmental Changes from Earth's Orbit

Journal Article | March 2019

Astronomy throughout the year.

Understanding Genetic Drift With Conceptual and Mathematical Models

Journal Article | March 2022

A Perfect Storm

Journal Article | March 2022

This point of view article uses a social science lens in an attempt to understand the differing environments of the two institutions (private and public) where I taught chemistry for 3 decades. I hypothesize that…

Where Are the Volcanoes?

Journal Article | March 2023

Investigating the Resurrection Plant

Journal Article | March 2019

Using discrepant events to confront misconceptions.

Nuff Nuff Wata

Case Study | December 2022

Design and Impact of an Undergraduate Civic Science Course

Journal Article | April 2020

An interdisciplinary group of faculty members from Tufts University developed an undergraduate civic science course designed to help students better understand and interpret the broad, sociocultural impacts of science…

How can growing seaweed help mussels?

Lesson Plan | January 2021

Concept Maps for Structuring Instruction and as a Potential Assessment Tool in a Large Introductory Science Course

Journal Article | July 2020

Concept maps make connections between ideas apparent, and thus would seem ideally suited to demonstrate learning. Yet, they are not widely used by instructors, particularly in large university classes. In this paper we…

The Water We Drink

Journal Article | March 2022

Exemplar Teaching Practices in STEM Courses in U.S. Universities

Journal Article | March 2022

Based on the largest multi-institutional observational study of undergraduate courses in the United States, this article describes exemplar teaching practices in engineering courses as an interdisciplinary science field…

It’s Worth a Shot

Journal Article | January 2023