Working on a Pollution Solution

Journal Article | March 2022

Incorporating Student-Centered Learning in an Ecosystems Course

Journal Article | October 2021

Student-centered learning broadly encompasses teaching approaches that shift the focus of instruction from teacher to student by placing an emphasis on what as well as how students want to learn. This approach allows…

Integrating Crosscutting Concepts and Literacy Strategies to Support Visual Literacy

Journal Article | June 2021

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…

Are We Recognizing the Sheer Power of Mother Nature?

Journal Article | May 2020

Scientifically Modeling Water

Journal Article | May 2022

Grand Canyon

Lesson Plan | July 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the formation of the Grand Canyon. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize the role of rivers and flowing water and connect them to…

Three-Dimensional Classroom Assessment Tasks

Journal Article | February 2019

Practical advice from veteran teachers

Project-based Learning in Argentina

Journal Article | September 2022

The historically important equations of Newton, Ohm, and Planck

Journal Article | August 2019

Building an understanding of physical principles

Finding the Next Diamond Mine

Journal Article | May 2020

Rider Root Beer

Journal Article | July 2022

A Layered Approach to Scientific Models

Journal Article | August 2020

What Is Happening to Our Water?

Journal Article | March 2022

So Many Words, So Little Time

Journal Article | February 2019

Exploring maker spaces, engineering, and more