Q: Why Do Certain Terms in The Language of Science Cause So Much Confusion?

Journal Article | October 2021

Creating Class Consensus Models to Support Student Sensemaking

Professional Learning Unit | January 2025

Gain experience and strategies in using the wealth of your students’ ideas to collaboratively build consensus models for complex phenomena.

As Light Meets Matter

Case Study | May 2002

Blizzard Warning!

Journal Article | March 2022

The Science of COVID-19

Journal Article | January 2023

Data Investigations to Further Social Justice Inside and Outside of STEM

Journal Article | January 2021

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…

Cross-Disciplinary Learning

Journal Article | August 2022

We propose cross-disciplinary learning as a construct that can guide instruction and assessment in programs that feature sequential learning across multiple science disciplines. Cross-disciplinary learning combines…

Working on a Pollution Solution

Journal Article | March 2022

Argumentation to Inform an Engineering Design Decision

Journal Article | July 2022

The Science Symposium

Journal Article | September 2022

Teaching Climate Change Through Educational Resources From America’s National Parks

Journal Article | July 2023

Teaching Comprehension in the Digital Age

Journal Article | April 2021

How Slow Is Your Parachute?

Journal Article | July 2021

What’s Inside Our Solar System?

Lesson Plan | July 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the solar system. The probe is designed to find out if students can distinguish between objects in the solar system and objects outside of the…