Using Simple Machines to Leverage Learning

Journal Article | February 2008

What would your students say if you told them they could lift you off the ground using a block and a board? Using a simple machine, they’ll find out they can, and they’ll learn about work, energy, and motion in the…

Science Sampler: Hypothesis-based learning

Journal Article | October 2005

Are visions of students hypothesizing, designing experiments to test their explanations, analyzing data, writing formal publications of results, and debating over scientific procedures in an attempt to justify their…

Science Learning Environments and Action Research

Journal Article | August 2006

A learning environment survey can be easily used in your science classroom to evaluate new instructional approaches, to spark enthusiasm, and to produce evidence showing that you are indeed becoming a reflective…

Vision + Community = Outdoor Learning Stations

Journal Article | February 2013

Local partners can provide the expertise, labor, and even funding to transform your school's outdoor areas into outdoor learning stations.

Trade Books for Learning: An Author's View

Journal Article | October 2006

What other ecosystem is as mysterious and compelling as the rain forest and home to innumerable living things that children may never have seen or heard of before? Answer: mangroves! These fascinating and important…

A New Year for Connected Science Learning

Journal Article | January 2018

Connected Science Learning Editor Dennis Schatz provides readers with news about behind-the-scenes updates for the journal.   Funding to support Connected Science Learning We are delighted to announce that The…

Taking an Ecosystem Approach to STEM Learning

Journal Article | February 2016

Explore the Synergies project, a case study for how to comprehensively integrate three exemplary teaching practices into a STEM-learning ecosystem.   The nature of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and…