Best Professional Development for Online Faculty? Take an Online Course

Journal Article | April 2021

Numerous professional development programs exist to equip science faculty with the skills and knowledge to effectively teach online. An effective way to explore new content while gaining an understanding of the student…

Exploring Peer Learning Assistants’ Impact on Student Performance and Perceptions in an Undergraduate Biology Course

Journal Article | July 2023

To transition introductory college science courses from large, passive lectures to more student-centered learning environments, additional instructional support is needed. Peer learning assistants (PLAs) can support…

Planting 3D Instruction in Your Classroom

Journal Article | June 2020

Solutions-Focused Sustainable Development Education Through Biomimicry

Journal Article | July 2023

Integrating Engineering Design in Undergraduate Biology Using a Life Science Design Task

Journal Article | December 2020

This study examines the initial integration of engineering design in an introductory preservice elementary biology content course using a life science design task focused on composting. The task, informed by a three-…

Do Plants Breathe?

Journal Article | February 2019

The idea that plants do photosynthesis but do not do cellular respiration is a common misconception among middle and high school students that often stems from an over-simplification of these processes in diagrams and…

Heart-Stopping Rollercoasters

Journal Article | May 2023

Open Innovation Challenge to Mitigate Global Warming

Journal Article | September 2023

Rethinking Online Science Learning

Journal Article | March 2022

Ride the Movies

Journal Article | February 2019

Apply science and engineering practices to design and build an amusement park ride based on a Hollywood film.

Shake A Bush

Journal Article | May 2020

Developing the Next Generation of Elementary Science Teachers

Journal Article | December 2020

National science education documents emphasize new learning outcomes of elementary students; therefore, the preparation of elementary teachers should be revised to meet these challenges. This article describes how…

Facilitating Emancipatory and Justice-Centered Environmental and Climate Learning

Journal Article | September 2021

Crosscutting Concepts as Productive Ways of Thinking

Journal Article | August 2019

Tips and techniques for creative teaching

Cultivating Digital Literacy

Journal Article | April 2021