Utility Engineer Aaron Spencer

Journal Article | June 2021

Looking Back at a Pandemic and Preparing for the Next One

Journal Article | June 2021

Multilingual Families and Field Trips

Journal Article | November 2020

Science That’s Out of This World

Journal Article | June 2020

Count Birds for Science This Winter With Project FeederWatch

Journal Article | December 2020

Using Computational Thinking and Modeling to Build Water and Watershed Literacy

Journal Article | March 2021

Improving Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Engineering Teaching Efficacy Beliefs With 3D Design and Printing

Journal Article | December 2020

The Framework for K–12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) under-score the importance of including engineering design process (EDP) within the science curriculum. The Framework and the…

Why Are There Coral in the Cliffs?

Journal Article | January 2021

Bridging the Gap Between Scientists and the Public

Journal Article | June 2021

Scenarios, Stakeholders, Autonomy, and Choice

Journal Article | July 2020

A role-play activity is presented that was designed for a STEM education learning experience to enrich science literacy, collaboration, and critical-thinking skills in undergraduate science courses. During the roleplay…

Engaging Students at All Academic Levels in an Inquiry-Based Paleoecologic Learning Activity—Even When You Don’t Have the Rocks

Journal Article | October 2021

Inquiry-based learning is an educational strategy that emphasizes the student’s role in the learning process by having them propose and test hypotheses through experimentation and/or the collection of observational data…

Barriers to Learning Assistant Engagement

Journal Article | July 2020

Learning Assistants (LAs) help students develop a deeper understanding of content and are particularly effective during active learning instruction. A foundational pillar of the LA model is the LA pedagogy course,…

Finding Team Clean

Journal Article | May 2020

Fostering Nonscientist Thinking on Evolution Concepts Through the Teaching for Transformative Experiences in Science (TTES) Model

Journal Article | October 2020

Understanding of evolution is foundational to be a scientifically literate citizen because it allows analysis of socioscientific issues, such as biodiversity conservation, biotechnology applications, and human-induced…

Qualitative Analysis of Ray Optics in a College Physics Laboratory: A 5E Lesson

Journal Article | July 2020

This paper describes an alternative approach to teaching and learning practices in an undergraduate physics laboratory. The instructor plans and implements the 5E instructional model into the laboratory instruction.…