Chicken Eggs

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about food, transformation of matter, growth and development, conservation of mass, and systems. The concepts underlying this probe are complex. It is…

Where Does Your Sidewalk End?

Journal Article | October 2021

Respiration

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about respiration. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize respiration as a process that all living things use in order to obtain…

Reflections on Multimodal Delivery of a Laboratory Course for Nonscience Majors and Opportunities for Improved Student Engagement

Journal Article | August 2022

A rudimentary level of scientific literacy is necessary in the general public. At the undergraduate level, this literacy can be achieved through general education courses offered in areas of natural sciences. Over the…

The Survival Games

Journal Article | January 2021

Fostering Cultural Community Wealth

Journal Article | March 2023

Using Proxy Data to Understand Climate History

Journal Article | April 2023

Advancing Alloys

Journal Article | April 2020

The manufacture of metal alloys is ubiquitous, yet infrequently discussed in high school coursework as concepts related to them are often too complex or abstract for beginning science students. However, earlier…

Case Studies in Environmental Justice

Journal Article | September 2020

Digestive System

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the digestive system. The probe is designed to find out whether students realize a main function of the digestive system is to break food down into…

Phenomenon-Based Professional Development

Journal Article | March 2021

Learning Researchers

Journal Article | December 2020

Formative assessment has been shown to be a critical activity for promoting meaningful understanding in the classroom. Systematic engagement in formative assessment helps instructors to develop a clearer picture of…

Project-based Learning in Argentina

Journal Article | September 2022

Functions of Living Things

Lesson Plan | August 2020

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about life processes. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize that plants and animals share several life functions, even though they are…

Transgender Perspectives in the Biology Classroom

Journal Article | April 2020