Equity Strategies: Community Hosts and Design Thinking in a Middle School Summer Camp

Journal Article | September 2020

Authors and Engineers

Journal Article | January 2019

Where Do You Find Earth’s Plates?

Lesson Plan | July 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about Earth’s plates. The probe is designed to find out where students think tectonic plates are located.

Brainstorming

Lesson Plan | August 2020

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about brainstorming. The probe is designed to determine the extent to which students understand the norms of good teamwork during the brainstorming…

Comics in the Classroom

Journal Article | March 2020

Safer At-Home Food Science Investigations

Blog Post | October 2023

Refine By Design

Journal Article | July 2022

Mystery Critters

Journal Article | September 2022

Using Growth Rings on Wooden Blocks and Plywood to Enhance Students’ Spatial Reasoning Skills

Journal Article | May 2023

Spatial reasoning is one of the most challenging skills to master in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. This article reports the results of a teaching intervention that involved using…

Renewable or Nonrenewable?

Lesson Plan | July 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about Earth’s natural resources. The probe is designed to find out if students can distinguish between renewable and nonrenewable natural resources.

Engaging Students at All Academic Levels in an Inquiry-Based Paleoecologic Learning Activity—Even When You Don’t Have the Rocks

Journal Article | October 2021

Inquiry-based learning is an educational strategy that emphasizes the student’s role in the learning process by having them propose and test hypotheses through experimentation and/or the collection of observational data…

Effect of Exam Wrappers on Student Achievement in Multiple, Large STEM Courses

Journal Article | August 2020

Metacognition, the ability to think about and regulate one’s thinking, is an important factor in effective student learning. One intervention to promote student metacognition is the exam wrapper—a reflection students…

Colorful Creations

Journal Article | September 2019

This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature.

Lab Safety and the 'Dirty Dozen'

Blog Post | November 2021

Archaeology-in-a-Box

Journal Article | September 2019

Applying geology concepts to an investigation into human behavior