Chicken Eggs

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about food, transformation of matter, growth and development, conservation of mass, and systems. The concepts underlying this probe are complex. It is…

Project Hail Mary

Journal Article | May 2022

Science Friday

Journal Article | March 2023

Teacher Spotlight: Steve Metz

Journal Article | January 2021

Walking the Slope

Journal Article | January 2021

The Return of the River Herring

Journal Article | February 2021

Why Culturally Relevant Science Teaching is Vital in Our Classrooms

Journal Article | October 2021

Why Does the Moon Look Like That Again?

Journal Article | September 2020

From Prairies to Corn Fields for Fuel

Case Study | August 2015

Hydrogen Powered Cars

Case Study | August 2014

Prototyping Builds Resiliency

Journal Article | August 2020

Arguing About a Chemical Change

Journal Article | February 2020

Use a sample ACT writing prompt in an explore-before-explain instructional sequence to a 9th-grade physical science class to promote student learning and demonstrate that mass is conserved in a chemical reaction

Force and Motion Ideas

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to comprehensively elicit students’ ideas about the relationship between force and motion. The list of possible answers includes several distracters that are based on learning…

Teacher Spotlight: Wendy Frazier

Journal Article | March 2020

A Layered Approach to Scientific Models

Journal Article | August 2020