The Boxcar Challenge Unit

Journal Article | February 2020

Doing It All

Journal Article | November 2022

Modifying Traditional Labs to Target Scientific Reasoning

Journal Article | December 2020

This article showcases how a physics lab course was successfully redesigned to promote important reasoning abilities not explicitly addressed in the typical college setting. Student development of such abilities is…

Equity Strategies: Community Hosts and Design Thinking in a Middle School Summer Camp

Journal Article | September 2020

STEM Scholars’ Sense of Community During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal Article | August 2021

The purpose of this study was to investigate sense of community (SOC) within a STEM learning community during the COVID-19 pandemic. The STEM learning community that was the setting for this study is funded by a…

The Day-Night Cycle

Journal Article | November 2020

Negative Student Response to Active Learning in STEM Classrooms:

Journal Article | July 2020

Recent research has supported the use of student-centered teaching practices, such as active learning, because of its effectiveness in improving student learning and retention when compared with traditional, lecture-…

When Can We See Makali‘i?

Journal Article | November 2022

A Web of Ideas

Journal Article | February 2020

The Fram Polar Expedition and Determining Latitude From Stars

Journal Article | March 2023

Promoting Biodiversity Through Urban Greenspaces

Journal Article | August 2021

Incorporating Student-Centered Learning in an Ecosystems Course

Journal Article | October 2021

Student-centered learning broadly encompasses teaching approaches that shift the focus of instruction from teacher to student by placing an emphasis on what as well as how students want to learn. This approach allows…

What, Graphing Can Be Fun and Engaging This Year?!

Journal Article | July 2023

A Case for Creative Coding

Journal Article | April 2021

The Birds and the Bees, the Flowers and the Trees

Journal Article | January 2023