Using Publicly Available Long-Term Climate Records in Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Big Data Curriculum

Journal Article | October 2021

Understanding data analysis and interpreting data are key components of teaching interdisciplinary undergraduate students. We detail a semester-long research project that introduces students to long-term data sets,…

A Team-Taught Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminar With a Focus on Blood

Journal Article | February 2020

First-Year Seminars (FYS) offer a unique mode of introducing college students to new topics, research practices, and approaches to learning that they may not have been exposed to in high school. In this article, we…

Sustaining Community-School Relationships Around Shared Visions of Climate Justice and Science Teaching

Journal Article | September 2021

Computing in Bioinformatics and Engaged Student Learning

Journal Article | November 2022

The field of biology education—and other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines more broadly—has witnessed two major shifts in the past decade: (i) the increased awareness of research-based…

Sliding and Colliding Into Physics

Journal Article | May 2022

C2AST (Critical and Cultural Approaches to Ambitious Science Teaching)

Journal Article | August 2021

Planning Virtual Science Fairs

Journal Article | January 2022

Applying the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) Framework During a Community College Chemistry Project-Based Learning Activity

Journal Article | October 2020

Project-based learning (PBL) instructional methods attempt to make connections between students and their ability to solve real problems. We framed our qualitative study within sociocultural theory and used the…

Arguing About a Chemical Change

Journal Article | February 2020

Use a sample ACT writing prompt in an explore-before-explain instructional sequence to a 9th-grade physical science class to promote student learning and demonstrate that mass is conserved in a chemical reaction

Mapping Stakeholders

Journal Article | September 2020

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.

Formative Assessment of English Language Proficiency in the Science Classroom

Journal Article | July 2020

Resources and Perspectives From State Science Leaders

Blog Post | November 2019

Data Investigations to Further Social Justice Inside and Outside of STEM

Journal Article | January 2021

Illuminating the Universe

Journal Article | August 2020