Making Connections with Digital Data: Digital camera technology helps students draw connections between their hypotheses, data, and inferences

Journal Article | December 2003

Digital cameras can provide added value to classroom data collection allowing the students to make visual connections between their hypotheses, data, and inferences. Digital data appears more concrete and "real" to…

Commitments for Connected STEM

Journal Article | January 2022

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…

How Slow Is Your Parachute?

Journal Article | July 2021

Student Performance in Ground Versus Online Sections of a Biological Science I College Course

Journal Article | October 2021

This study is a comparison of ground-based versus online student performance using a combination of common final examination scores and associated demographic data in a biological science college course taught by a…

The Hot and Cold of Volcanoes

Journal Article | October 2021

Freebies for Science Teachers, December 7, 2021

Reports Article | December 2021

Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, August 1, 2023

Reports Article | July 2023

Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, August 15, 2023

Reports Article | August 2023

Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, October 3, 2023

Reports Article | September 2023

What’s the Problem?

Lesson Plan | August 2020

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ initial response to an ill-defined problematic situation. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that in a problem situation, there is…

What Happens When You Bring a Balloon Near Wall

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about electrical interactions. The probe is designed to find out how students visually represent electrical interactions.

Is the Sun a Star?

Lesson Plan | July 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the Sun and stars. The probe is designed to uncover students’ ideas about the nature of stars and their recognition that the Sun is an average star…

Freebies for Science Teachers, Week of August 7

Reports Article | August 2020