The Importance of Teaching and Learning About the Ocean: Ocean Literacy as a Critical Component of Science and Environmental Literacy

Position Statement | March 2025

Ice-Cold Lemonade

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about transfer of energy. The probe is designed to determine whether students recognize that heat flows from warmer objects or areas to cooler ones.

Accomodating Visually Impaired Students in Secondary Science

Journal Article | November 2022

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…

Sailing into Engineering

Journal Article | August 2020

A Layered Approach to Scientific Models

Journal Article | August 2020

Shake A Bush

Journal Article | May 2020

Crossing the Amazon by LEGO

Journal Article | January 2019

Seasonal Weather Patterns

Journal Article | January 2019

At Home With Bats

Journal Article | February 2020

NASA’s Universe of Learning

Journal Article | August 2020

Freebies for Science Teachers, August 31, 2021

Reports Article | August 2021

Design and Impact of an Undergraduate Civic Science Course

Journal Article | April 2020

An interdisciplinary group of faculty members from Tufts University developed an undergraduate civic science course designed to help students better understand and interpret the broad, sociocultural impacts of science…

Science Education for Middle Level Students

Position Statement | June 2020