Let's Give Them Something to Talk About

Journal Article | August 2021

Motivating Three-Dimensional Learning From Students’ Questions

Journal Article | August 2021

Science and Language Shifts in a Diverse Fourth-Grade Classroom

Journal Article | August 2021

The Perfect Match

Journal Article | February 2020

Arguing About a Chemical Change

Journal Article | February 2020

Use a sample ACT writing prompt in an explore-before-explain instructional sequence to a 9th-grade physical science class to promote student learning and demonstrate that mass is conserved in a chemical reaction

Integrating Engineering Design in Undergraduate Biology Using a Life Science Design Task

Journal Article | December 2020

This study examines the initial integration of engineering design in an introductory preservice elementary biology content course using a life science design task focused on composting. The task, informed by a three-…

From Surviving to Thriving

Journal Article | April 2020

Finding High-Quality Science Materials

Reports Article | June 2020

Habitat Change

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about adaptation. The probe is designed to reveal whether students think individuals intentionally change their physical characteristics or behaviors in…

Genetics for All

Journal Article | February 2020

Spring Into Action This April With Global Citizen Science Month

Journal Article | June 2020

Seasonal Weather Patterns

Journal Article | January 2019

Reimagining the 5 Practices for Effective and Equitable Discourse

Journal Article | June 2021

Plants in the Dark and Light

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about plant growth. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize that plants use their stored food to grow in the absence of light.

Shape, Bake, and Grow!

Journal Article | August 2020