Science Education for Middle Level Learners

Position Statement | May 2026

Yes, and Cross-Curricular Planning for Preschool

Journal Article | July 2019

Dropping Balls

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about falling objects. The probe is designed to find out if students think the weight or mass of an object affects how fast it falls.

Science in the News

Journal Article | July 2023

Learning About Culture and Sustainable Harvesting of Native Plants

Journal Article | March 2021

Incorporating Programming, Modeling, and Data Analysis Into an Introductory Biology Course

Journal Article | January 2021

This paper describes an introductory biology course for undergraduates that heavily incorporates quantitative problem solving in activities and homework assignments. The course is broken up into a series of units, each…

Beyond Show-and-Tell

Journal Article | October 2021

Where Does Your Sidewalk End?

Journal Article | October 2021

Refraction

Journal Article | February 2020

Debris Tracker

Journal Article | September 2020

Social Justice in the Science Classroom

Journal Article | April 2020

Making as a Performance Task

Journal Article | February 2019

Cultivating Curiosity About Creatures

Journal Article | March 2019

Animatronic Lions, and Tigers, and Bears Oh! My!

Journal Article | March 2019

This column describes creating a classroom culture for engineering. This issue shares information about computational thinking and 3D printing.

The Effect of Science Education Classes on Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Attitudes About Science

Journal Article | June 2019

This study examined the attitudes toward science of elementary preservice teachers at a large public university in Texas. The study utilized a version of the well-established Test of ScienceRelated Attitudes (TOSRA) to…