Science in the News

Journal Article | July 2023

Mapping Students’ Engineering Processes with Design Zones

Journal Article | January 2021

Back to Mars

Journal Article | August 2020

Is It Affordable?

Lesson Plan | August 2020

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about trade-offs. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize that trade-offs involve sacrificing one or more things in favor of another…

Measuring Shadows to Calculate the Size of Earth

Journal Article | March 2020

Flight of the Bumblebee

Journal Article | August 2020

Novel Coronavirus

Journal Article | April 2020

In this secondary-level lesson, students will generate and prioritize questions about the novel coronavirus and evaluate scientific and/or technical information from multiple authoritative sources, assessing the…

Student-Driven Research in the First Year

Journal Article | October 2020

We designed the Integrated Sciences First-Year Program (ISFP) to introduce students to the nature and process of science early in their academic career, help them develop skills and competencies, and create an…

Data literacy 101

Journal Article | March 2020

Support Is Only a #Hashtag Away

Journal Article | June 2020

Designing Environmental Science Curriculum With PhotoVoice to Engage Nonscience Majors

Journal Article | July 2020

Sonic Hedgehog

Case Study | April 2001

Left Out in the Cold

Case Study | June 2002

How Can We Send Messages to Someone Far Away?

Lesson Plan | May 2020

“It's Okay That You Add Your Touch”: Fostering Imagining and Creating Through STEAM Education

Journal Article | September 2022