Celebrating 50 Years of Earth Day!

Blog Post | April 2020

Negative Student Response to Active Learning in STEM Classrooms:

Journal Article | July 2020

Recent research has supported the use of student-centered teaching practices, such as active learning, because of its effectiveness in improving student learning and retention when compared with traditional, lecture-…

Effect of Exam Wrappers on Student Achievement in Multiple, Large STEM Courses

Journal Article | August 2020

Metacognition, the ability to think about and regulate one’s thinking, is an important factor in effective student learning. One intervention to promote student metacognition is the exam wrapper—a reflection students…

CCE For Me: Students Demand High-Quality Climate Change Course Offerings

Journal Article | September 2022

Professional Learning in Science Education

Position Statement | January 2025

What Is Sensemaking?

Professional Learning Unit | October 2021

Learn to recognize the four critical attributes of sensemaking and how these attributes work together to help ensure all students have access and a strong desire to learn science. 

Comics in the Classroom

Journal Article | March 2020

Sphero Robots and the Periodic Table

Journal Article | October 2019

Students review the periodic table by coding robots.

Surface Tension and Surfactants

Journal Article | January 2019

Lost? Ask a Turtle

Case Study | April 2014

Which Came First, the Mutation or the Antibiotic?

Case Study | July 2015

Nuclear Meltdown in Fukushima

Case Study | September 2015

How to Make ATP

Case Study | March 2018

Barbara’s Thyroid

Case Study | November 2018

Speciation and the Threespine Stickleback

Case Study | January 2019