The Science Project Portfolio

Journal Article | February 2019

Transform the science fair experience into an authentic summative assessment.

The REACH Program Brings Science Practices to Students: A Teacher’s Perspective

Journal Article | November 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…

Designing for Future Action

Journal Article | January 2022

Teaching With Simulations

Journal Article | February 2019

Teachers use simulations for student motivation, content learning, and engagement in science practices.

Sowing Spartina

Journal Article | May 2020

Who Gets Helped?

Journal Article | December 2020

Although peer interaction in the college classroom may benefit some students by developing peer networks for future collaborations, prior research has suggested that these relationships most often benefit students from…

Multilingual Families and Field Trips

Journal Article | November 2020

Investigating Land Ethics

Journal Article | March 2020

NGSS Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)

Blog Post | April 2020

The Importance of Partnership, Support, and Sustained Professional Development

Journal Article | October 2023

Peer-Led Team Learning as Educational Tool for First-Year Biology Students

Journal Article | April 2021

This article reports the findings of the Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) model intervention study in an introductory biology course at a Puerto Rican private university. PLTL introduces to the traditional class format an…

Is It Matter?

Lesson Plan | August 2020

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about matter. The probe is designed to reveal the characteristics students use to describe and define matter.

Transitioning an In-Person Elementary STEM After-School Program to Distance Learning During COVID-19

Journal Article | March 2022

Assessment of Demographic Biases Associated With the Ground Rules System in a Large Undergraduate Engineering Course

Journal Article | January 2023

Despite more women and underrepresented students entering engineering, there are still gaps in achievement. A potential remedy is to establish equitable team dynamics during groupwork. Groupware systems have been…