Advice to Future Participants From Six Cohorts of an Undergraduate Summer Research Program in Atmospheric Science

Journal Article | January 2023

Many undergraduates use research internships to gain experience for graduate school. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs involve heavy research and lab work duties, for which students are…

A Coat of Many Colors

Journal Article | March 2020

The Effect of Science Education Classes on Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Attitudes About Science

Journal Article | June 2019

This study examined the attitudes toward science of elementary preservice teachers at a large public university in Texas. The study utilized a version of the well-established Test of ScienceRelated Attitudes (TOSRA) to…

Messy Data, Real Science

Journal Article | May 2020

[A] major goal for science education should be to provide all students with the background to systematically investigate issues related to their personal and community priorities. They should be able to frame…

Student-Driven Citizen Science

Journal Article | September 2019

Investigating marine plastic pollution

Earth Day and Environmental Justice

Journal Article | May 2020

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…

Encouraging student voices in the science classroom

Journal Article | September 2019

Notes from the field editor

How Can a Cow's Diet Affect the Climate?

Lesson Plan | May 2021

Growing Stronger Together: An Improvement Science Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal Article | December 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…

What Makes Them Tick? Middle School Data Science Explorations of Ticks and Lyme Disease

Journal Article | September 2020

Why Does the Green Crab Love Climate Change?

Lesson Plan | January 2021

How does eating beef affect climate change?

Lesson Plan | June 2023

NSTA Releases Revised Position Statement on Climate Change Education

Press Release | January 2025