Piloting Virtual Field Trips During a Pandemic

Journal Article | April 2022

Making Sound

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about sound. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that sound is produced by vibrating matter.

Introducing Engineering as an Altruistic STEM Career

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…

Constructive Error Climate: A Classroom Assessment Technique in Science Classes

Journal Article | April 2020

Although making errors in the learning process is common, it is usually perceived by students as something negative and a potential threat to self-esteem. Such perception often prevents students from considering errors…

Self-Donning Sterile Gloves

Journal Article | December 2020

Teacher-Learning, Meaning-Making, and Integrating ISE Practices in Diverse Urban Classrooms

Journal Article | July 2022

Wonder-Full Thinking

Journal Article | March 2022

An Evolution in Teaching Natural Selection

Journal Article | January 2023

Garden Variety

Journal Article | May 2023

Let's Build a Fast Car

Journal Article | August 2021

Wildfire!

Journal Article | November 2022

Is It Made of Parts?

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit children’s developing ideas about structure in living systems. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize that living things are made up of parts.

Bird Biodiversity

Journal Article | March 2023

Let’s Clear the Air

Journal Article | January 2021