Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, August 12, 2025

Reports Article | August 2025

Freebies for Science Teachers, Week of August 7

Reports Article | August 2020

Developing and Implementing a Campus-Wide Professional Development Program: Successes and Challenges

Journal Article | October 2019

Gateways-ND is a 5-year, National Science Foundation–funded effort directed toward three goals: maximizing the instructional effectiveness of postsecondary STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)…

What’s Inside Our Solar System?

Lesson Plan | July 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the solar system. The probe is designed to find out if students can distinguish between objects in the solar system and objects outside of the…

Young Mathematicians: A Successful Model of a Family Math Community

Journal Article | July 2022

Genetics for All

Journal Article | March 2019

This paper highlights learning supports associated with genetics lessons that were implemented in a urban high school biology classroom. The supports provided access to science content for ELs, students with IEPs, and…

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…

Exploring the Role of Student Seating Preference and Performance in a Large Introductory STEM Course

Journal Article | March 2023

Most introductory courses are held in large lecture halls, with students typically sitting in either the front, middle, or back of the classroom. In a mixed-methods study of student attendance, performance, and seat…

Connecting a Community Through Computational Thinking and Robotics

Journal Article | February 2023

Some Like It Hot

Journal Article | February 2021

Analyzing and Interpreting Data to Support Student Sensemaking in a High School Evolution Unit

Professional Learning Unit | September 2024

This Professional Learning Unit uses a storyline unit with an anchoring phenomenon that is a case study in which the patient has acute mountain sickness at Everest base camp to focus participant learning on how the…

Using Storylines to Support Three-Dimensional Learning in Project-Based Science

Journal Article | January 2019

Freebies for Science Teachers, March 1, 2022

Reports Article | February 2022

Enrichment for All

Journal Article | September 2020