Designing Assessments with the <em>Standards</em>: Using the standards to create learning goals and assessment tools

Journal Article | December 1999

As teachers make the transition to inquiry-centered science, they discover a need for new assessments. In response to this need, a group of 125 elementary teachers embarked on a three-year investigation of science…

Building on Students' Knowledge of Solar Cells: Integrating Mathematics and Science to Support Engineering Design Tasks

Journal Article | January 2013

Explore this weeklong unit on solar energy that supports math and science learning.

Connectedness by Design: The Teaching Laboratories in St. Olaf College's Regents Hall of Natural and Mathematical Sciences

Journal Article | October 2011

This study assessed the impact of science teaching laboratories designed with visual connections to spaces outside the laboratory, either to interior spaces or to the outdoors. Specifically the authors assessed student…

Lunch-Trash Solar Stills: Learning About the Engineering Design Process Through Earth Science

Journal Article | January 2013

Create a water-purification systems with recyclables.

Improving Bridge Design, Grade 8: STEM Road Map for Middle School (e-book)

eBook | August 2018

Improving Bridge Design outlines a journey that will steer your students toward authentic problem solving while grounding them in integrated STEM disciplines. As are the other volumes in the series, this book is…

Research and Teaching: The Five Minute Teach: Instructional Design to Support TA Training and Writing Instruction in the Sciences

Journal Article | June 2018

The Five Minute Teach (5MT) serves as both a training tool for graduate teaching assistants (TAs) and a format for explicit discipline-based writing instruction. Here the authors describe the development and execution…

Redesigning the Water Rocket: An Engineering-Design Cycle for Integrating Science and Engineering Practices and Nature of Science Learning

Journal Article | October 2014

Examine a variety of aerodynamic factors that affect the distance traveled by a projectile.