Celebrating 80 Years of Success

Blog Post | July 2024

Plants in the Dark and Light

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about plant growth. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize that plants use their stored food to grow in the absence of light.

STEM 101 – Federal Policy Considerations for Moving STEM Forward

Blog Post | February 2021

When to Integrate Technology

Reports Article | July 2020

Engaging Students at All Academic Levels in an Inquiry-Based Paleoecologic Learning Activity—Even When You Don’t Have the Rocks

Journal Article | October 2021

Inquiry-based learning is an educational strategy that emphasizes the student’s role in the learning process by having them propose and test hypotheses through experimentation and/or the collection of observational data…

From the Field: Events and Opportunities, August 10, 2021

Reports Article | August 2021

From the Field: Events and Opportunities, April 6, 2021

Reports Article | April 2021

Improving the Quality of Engineering Design Challenges

Journal Article | January 2019

A STEAM_ed Bee

Journal Article | April 2021

Rosie Revere’s Orangutan Dilemma

Journal Article | December 2020

Shining a Light on the 'T' in STEM

Journal Article | April 2021

A Team-Taught Interdisciplinary First-Year Seminar With a Focus on Blood

Journal Article | February 2020

First-Year Seminars (FYS) offer a unique mode of introducing college students to new topics, research practices, and approaches to learning that they may not have been exposed to in high school. In this article, we…

From the Field: Events and Opportunities, January 12, 2021

Reports Article | January 2021

Sharing the Wonder of Natural History

Journal Article | March 2019

Help students overcome nature-deficit disorder with these outdoor activities.