Creating Class Consensus Models to Support Student Sensemaking

Professional Learning Unit | January 2025

Gain experience and strategies in using the wealth of your students’ ideas to collaboratively build consensus models for complex phenomena.

Is It a Rock? (Version 2)

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about an Earth material, rocks. The probe is designed to determine whether students can distinguish between humanmade, “rocklike” materials and…

Local Phenomena

Blog Post | August 2020

Developing the Next Generation of Elementary Science Teachers

Journal Article | October 2019

This article describes how science educators at a large southeastern university developed specialized science training for elementary preservice teachers (EPSTs) by creating a combination of discipline-specific science…

Freebies for Science and STEM Teachers/From the Field, March 29, 2022

Reports Article | March 2022

How Can We Plan a Safe and Successful Model Rocket Launch?

Lesson Plan | May 2023

How can we use what we know about weight and thrust to plan a safe and successful model rocket launch?

Lesson Plan | October 2023

Starting to Teach During the Pandemic

Reports Article | July 2020