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.

The Greenhouse Effect

Lesson Plan | July 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the greenhouse effect. The probe is designed to reveal whether students confuse the greenhouse effect with other environmental concerns or lump the…

Instructional Space Health and Safety Cleaning Protocols for the Beginning of the New School Year

Blog Post | August 2025

Sourdough Citizen Science

Journal Article | March 2020

Using Adapted Primary Literature in the Science Classroom

Journal Article | September 2022

Why Should Science Teachers Practice Gratitude in 2021?

Journal Article | January 2021

The Woodpecker Cavity Cam Project

Journal Article | January 2022

Back to Mars

Journal Article | August 2020

Chimborazo Then and Now

Journal Article | December 2020

Safer Laboratory Dissection Activities

Blog Post | January 2024

The (Trans)Formative Assessment Planning Template

Journal Article | January 2023

What’s the Buzz?

Journal Article | April 2021

Pushing, Pulling, and Predicting Force Patterns

Journal Article | June 2021

Planning Virtual Science Fairs

Journal Article | January 2022

An Interview With Cognitive Scientist Lindsay Portnoy

Journal Article | August 2019

Cognitive scientists study how people learn. This type of knowledge can be applied in a diverse array of fields, ranging from advertising to journalism and academia. Lindsay Portnoy is a lecturer at Northeastern…