Observing the Unobservable

Journal Article | November 2022

Chemicals Gone Funny

Journal Article | May 2022

Surveying the Safety Culture of Academic Laboratories

Journal Article | October 2020

The university traditionally has been the foundation for young adults’ professional development, yet the proclivity toward safety culture has garnered less focus in higher education than in the workforce. A survey of…

Is It Made of Parts?

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit children’s developing ideas about structure in living systems. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize that living things are made up of parts.

Practice Makes Better

Journal Article | January 2021

Practice effects are ubiquitous human phenomena that have been scientifically studied for over half a century. They are also among the most directly applicable psychological phenomenon, holding broad implications for…

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…

All That Glitters May Not Be Gold

Case Study | October 2001

Sustainable Mobility Expert E.J. Klock-McCook

Journal Article | April 2020

Using Computational Thinking and Modeling to Build Water and Watershed Literacy

Journal Article | March 2021

Mapping Stakeholders

Journal Article | September 2020

Sandy and Dusty Worlds

Journal Article | January 2023

Using Publicly Available Long-Term Climate Records in Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Big Data Curriculum

Journal Article | October 2021

Understanding data analysis and interpreting data are key components of teaching interdisciplinary undergraduate students. We detail a semester-long research project that introduces students to long-term data sets,…

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…

A Course-Based Research and Teaching Experience for Science Majors and Preservice Educators

Journal Article | August 2022

We designed a course to provide undergraduate science students and preservice teachers with authentic research and teaching experiences. Teams of students and preservice teachers complete supervised field ecology…

The Intentional Integration of Computational Thinking

Journal Article | April 2021