Beach Sand

Lesson Plan | August 2020

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about beach formation. It is designed to reveal whether students use concepts of weathering, erosion, and deposition to explain how a beach made up of…

MindHive: An Online Citizen Science Tool and Curriculum for Human Brain and Behavior Research

Journal Article | April 2022

Sliding and Colliding Into Physics

Journal Article | May 2022

Aligning Undergraduate Science Curricula With Three-Dimensional Learning

Journal Article | August 2022

Recent science reform advocates for the inclusion of engineering design to teach science and represents a shift to so-called three-dimensional (3D) learning. This shift often requires science instructors to adapt their…

Is That Plausible?

Journal Article | January 2023

Modeling Magnetism With the Floating Paper Clip

Journal Article | June 2021

Is It Living?

Lesson Plan | August 2020

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about living and nonliving. It is designed to find out what attributes students consider when determining if something is living or was once living.

Is This Watershed Contaminated With PCBs?

Journal Article | May 2020

At Home With Bats

Journal Article | February 2020

Hurricane Season

Journal Article | August 2019

Science and current events

Cardiac Blood Flow

Case Study | March 2020

SCOPE: A Volunteer-Led STEM Outreach Program Connecting Communities to Research

Journal Article | December 2021

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…

Joyful Science

Journal Article | September 2022

Collaborative Assessments

Journal Article | August 2020