Show Your Students How to Be More Persuasive When They Write

Journal Article | July 2020

After a grueling grading campaign, a chemist asked a writing and rhetoric specialist for help improving formal reports in the introductory organic chemistry lab. Together, we realized that the very best student reports…

Adaptation of Project-Based Learning Concepts to the Organic Chemistry I Laboratory Curriculum in a Small College Environment

Journal Article | March 2023

Project-based learning (PBL) research is shown to improve students’ higher-order thinking skills. In this article, we describe an adaptation of the PBL model that is suitable for colleges with limited science,…

Teaching K–8 Teachers About Integrating Science and Engineering

Journal Article | July 2020

We examined the use of an engineering learning cycle (ELC) model and in a course for K–8 inservice teachers for two purposes. First, we were interested in how the ELC would support teachers’ science, mathematics, and…

Turning on the Three-Dimensional Switch

Journal Article | August 2021

Oil Spill eSTEMation

Journal Article | April 2021

Growing Understanding From a SPARK

Journal Article | April 2022

Socially Transformative Teaching

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…

Data-Driven Science Vlogging for Connected Learning Anywhere

Journal Article | April 2022

A Team-Taught Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminar With a Focus on Blood

Journal Article | February 2020

First-Year Seminars (FYS) offer a unique mode of introducing college students to new topics, research practices, and approaches to learning that they may not have been exposed to in high school. In this article, we…

Are Learning Progressions a Useful Pedagogical Tool for Instructors?

Journal Article | October 2021

Learning progressions (LPs) present a potential tool to guide students toward deeper understanding of core concepts as they move through a curriculum. In addition to providing a theoretical scheme for education…

Differentiation in the Life Science Classroom Using Station Rotations

Journal Article | May 2022

Piloting Virtual Field Trips During a Pandemic

Journal Article | April 2022

“Yours Needs To Be More Like Mine!” What Does Competition Look Like in Informal Engineering Design Activities?

Journal Article | October 2023

Science and Language Shifts in a Diverse Fourth-Grade Classroom

Journal Article | August 2021