Is This Watershed Contaminated With PCBs?

Journal Article | May 2020

A Water Wheel Challenge!

Journal Article | January 2019

The SDM Finger

Journal Article | October 2019

Exploring makerspaces, engineering, and more

Scope on Safety: STEM: A question of safety.

Journal Article | August 2012

This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses the growth of STEM lessons and the need to address hazard recognition and safety training relative to the use of hand and power…

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…

Using Apps to Engage All Families in Science Exploration

Journal Article | June 2020

Focusing the Lens of the Crosscutting Concepts on Secondary Science Learning

Journal Article | March 2022

Teaching About How Scientists Work—With a Focus on Claims-Evidence-Reasoning

Blog Post | June 2021

Reflecting on this week’s Daily Do

Blog Post | April 2020

The Three Dimensions of Teaching and Learning: Module 4: Integrating the Three Dimensions

Professional Learning Course Module | April 2023

An Engineering Design Process

Lesson Plan | August 2020

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about an engineering design process. The probe is designed to show how students think of engineering design as a logical sequence. 

Floating High and Low

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about density and buoyancy. The probe is designed to find out how students think an object can be changed to make it float differently.