A “Meteor” Crashed Into Our School!

Journal Article | January 2022

Putting Problem-based Learning in Its Place

Journal Article | July 2022

The War Over Water Continues

Journal Article | September 2019

Debates over water allocation help students understand Earth systems.

So Many Words, So Little Time

Journal Article | February 2019

Exploring maker spaces, engineering, and more

Three-Dimensional Classroom Assessment Tasks

Journal Article | February 2019

Practical advice from veteran teachers

Facilitating Conceptual Change by Engaging Students’ Preconceptions During College Science Classroom Instruction

Journal Article | January 2021

Whether to engage student preconceptions to facilitate conceptual change is an area of debate among conceptual change theorists. Here, we evaluate the efficacy of a preconceptions-based instructional sequence about…

Engaging Students at All Academic Levels in an Inquiry-Based Paleoecologic Learning Activity—Even When You Don’t Have the Rocks

Journal Article | October 2021

Inquiry-based learning is an educational strategy that emphasizes the student’s role in the learning process by having them propose and test hypotheses through experimentation and/or the collection of observational data…

Saving the Forest for the Trees

Journal Article | September 2019

Collaborative science projects you can join

Get the Scoop on Soil Microbes

Journal Article | November 2020

Rightfully Present

Journal Article | March 2023

Cultivating Digital Literacy

Journal Article | April 2021

Interdisciplinary Lessons on Energy and Entropy

Journal Article | May 2022

This article presents ideas and narratives of an experiment on the concept of energy developed for an honors seminar on energy and a mechanics course. We argue that energy is an idea best taught in an interdisciplinary…

Refine By Design

Journal Article | July 2022

A Thrilling Roller-coaster Ride

Journal Article | August 2021

Growing STEM Learning Opportunities With Agriculture

Journal Article | October 2020