Design a Habitat ClassPack

Class Pack | June 2024

Now Available for Grade K-2 Picture Perfect STEM Lessons - Ready-to-TeachTM Picture-Perfect ClassPacks!         • We are excited to announce our new kitting partner: ECA…

Experimental Design and Statistical Analysis

Case Study | October 2002

Equal Time for Intelligent Design?

Case Study | June 2007

Archive: OpenSciEd Curricular Design and Pedagogical Routines that Support Emerging Multilingual Students’ Content and Language Development, May 21, 2020

Web Seminar | May 2020

Explore how the OpenSciEd Instructional model and associated supports ensure that Emerging Multilingual students flourish using the investigative and problematizing routines embedded within the OpenSciEd Instructional…

Student-Designed Experiments in Scientific Lab Instruction: Students at the University of Puerto Rico Go back to the Basics to Learn Chemistry Concepts

Journal Article | October 1997

Student-designed experiments emphasize depth of understanding. Revisiting "known" concepts like heat, temperature, uncertainty in measurements, mass, and volume, helps students deepen their understanding. Having to…

Research and Teaching: Using Learning-Styles Data to Design a Microbiology Course: Addressing a Spectrum of Learning Styles at the University of Puerto Rico

Journal Article | November 1999

Studies in learning theory indicate that active learning is more effective than passive learning (Matthews, Cooper, Davidson, and Hawkes 1995; McKeachie 1980). Today’s students must be independent thinkers who can…

Dog Mode Design Challenge

Archived Conference Session | January 2022

An Initial Engagement: Preparing a Preliminary Design

Reports Article | July 2020

Designing Equitable Engagement in Sensemaking

Blog Post | December 2020

Investigative Learning in Undergraduate Freshman Biology Laboratories: A Pilot Project at Virginia Tech—New Roles for Students and Teachers in an Experimental Design Laboratory

Journal Article | November 1997

What turned these kids on is an investigative approach—where they could do the thinking. Although the advantages of investigative laboratories have already been documented, this report is unique because it focuses on…