Using Trade Books and Biographies to Bring the Practices of Engineering to Life

Journal Article | December 2020

Mountaintop Fossil

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about mountain formation. The probe is designed to determine whether students recognize that some mountains are formed from the uplift of Earth’s crust…

Is It a Rock? (Version 2)

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about an Earth material, rocks. The probe is designed to determine whether students can distinguish between humanmade, “rocklike” materials and…

From the Field: Events and Opportunities, June 15, 2021

Reports Article | June 2021

Virtual Sungazing

Journal Article | December 2020

Sowing Spartina

Journal Article | May 2020

What is in Our Air?

Journal Article | March 2023

Issues of Question Equivalence in Online Exam Pools

Journal Article | March 2023

During the pandemic, the use of question pools for online testing was recommended to mitigate cheating, exposing multitudes of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students across the globe to this…

Implementing SEL in STEM—Challenges and Opportunities

Journal Article | June 2023

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

Cultivating Place

Journal Article | March 2021

The “Magic” of Density

Journal Article | June 2021

Gender-Inclusive Biology: A framework in action

Journal Article | August 2021