Needs of Seeds

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about seeds. The probe is designed to find out what students think most seeds need to germinate.

It’s All About the Moon

Journal Article | July 2022

Family-Based Astronomy

Journal Article | December 2020

Technology Meets Pedagogy: Comparing Classroom Response Systems

Journal Article | February 2019

The author of this article explores the impact of different student response systems in successive years in a general education human biology course.

So Many Words, So Little Time

Journal Article | February 2019

Exploring maker spaces, engineering, and more

Using Critical Thinking to Counter Misinformation

Journal Article | March 2019

Volunteering + You = A Successful NSTA

Blog Post | April 2021

Spaceships

Lesson Plan | June 2021

This probe is designed to elicit students’ ideas about changing the direction of motion in the absence of air. Many students will have seen movies or television shows in which spaceships turn by banking or using wing…

Comics in the Classroom

Journal Article | March 2020

NGSS Lesson Adaptations

Journal Article | December 2018

From Bean to Cup

Journal Article | February 2019

Coffee comes to the science lab

The historically important equations of Newton, Ohm, and Planck

Journal Article | August 2019

Building an understanding of physical principles

Data Literacy 101

Journal Article | March 2019

The Effect of Science Education Classes on Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Attitudes About Science

Journal Article | June 2019

This study examined the attitudes toward science of elementary preservice teachers at a large public university in Texas. The study utilized a version of the well-established Test of ScienceRelated Attitudes (TOSRA) to…

Are Your Lab SOPs in Place for a Safer School Year?

Blog Post | July 2021