Mystery Critters

Journal Article | September 2022

From Local to Global

Journal Article | April 2021

A Team-Taught Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminar With a Focus on Blood

Journal Article | February 2020

First-Year Seminars (FYS) offer a unique mode of introducing college students to new topics, research practices, and approaches to learning that they may not have been exposed to in high school. In this article, we…

Exploring the Zooniverse

Journal Article | April 2021

Promoting STEM Persistence Through an Innovative Field Trip–Based First-Year Experience Course

Journal Article | October 2019

The authors describe how they introduced a field trip–based course as a requirement for all first-year science majors.

Ancient Antimicrobials

Journal Article | January 2023

Exit Tickets

Journal Article | February 2020

Investigating Land Ethics

Journal Article | March 2020

Cells and Size

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the size of cells. The probe can be used to determine whether students recognize how small a cell is relative to other things.

Surface Shape Shifting

Journal Article | September 2022

Refine By Design

Journal Article | July 2022

Models for Developing Explanations of Earth’s Dynamic Plate System

Journal Article | March 2022

You Don’t Have to be a Rocket Scientist

Journal Article | May 2022

STEM Faculty Institute

Journal Article | January 2022

As change agents at our university, we sought to facilitate a transition within our STEM college toward more extensive use of evidence-based instructional practices (EBIPs) that promote student-centered learning. We…

Is It an Animal?

Lesson Plan | August 2020

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about animals. The probe is designed to find out what characteristics students use to determine whether an organism is classified as an animal.