Creating Confidence and Community Through Nature Journals

Journal Article | March 2022

How Can We Help Students See Patterns in Data?

Journal Article | July 2022

The Photoelectric Effect

Journal Article | September 2019

Good Writing is All About Momentum

Journal Article | March 2022

Emphasizing Physics Concepts with Cartoons

Journal Article | February 2020

Objects and Temperature

Lesson Plan | August 2020

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about temperature. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize that non–heat-producing objects exposed to the same ambient conditions…

Warming Water

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about thermal energy. The probe is designed to find out whether students think cold things can have energy.

Windows on the Inquiry Classroom

Journal Article | June 2021

A complete video and documentary record of an inquiry-based nonscience majors’ course has been captured (the “Fire and Ice” Collection). Every moment of 27 class sessions may be observed from several points of view (…

Data literacy 101

Journal Article | March 2020

Heat Reinvented

Journal Article | August 2021

Unpacking the Universe

Journal Article | March 2023

Using a Systems Thinking Approach to Figure Out Why a Ball Drops, Bounces, and Stops

Journal Article | October 2018

This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. In this issue, learn how to develop students’ systems thinking skills and have them apply these skills to discover and explain the…

Fire!

Journal Article | March 2023

Iron Bar

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about atoms. The probe is specifically designed to determine whether students can use the idea of atoms to explain why a metal expands when heated.…