NGSS Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)

Blog Post | April 2020

Self-Donning Sterile Gloves

Journal Article | December 2020

Ice-Cold Lemonade

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about transfer of energy. The probe is designed to determine whether students recognize that heat flows from warmer objects or areas to cooler ones.

Rotting Apple

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about decay and decomposers. The probe can be used to determine whether students recognize the need for a biological agent to break down once-living…

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

Bird Biodiversity

Journal Article | March 2023

Let’s Clear the Air

Journal Article | January 2021

Cornhole Predicts the Perfect Pitch

Journal Article | April 2021

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…

Engineering Essential Attributes of Cooperative Learning and Quality Discourse in a Large Enrollment Course by Leveraging Clicker Devices

Journal Article | April 2020

This article describes how clickers (student response systems) may be used to assess and support the development of productive process skills and discourse patterns within student teams during class periods. Clicker…