A “Meteor” Crashed Into Our School!

Journal Article | January 2022

Oh Deer! Using Socioscientific Issues to Teach Inquiry-Based Lessons With English Language Learners

Journal Article | November 2022

Why Does Water Swirl When it Goes Down a Drain?

Journal Article | January 2019

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.

Features of an Effective Future-Faculty Teaching-Development Program

Journal Article | April 2020

Many institutions are preparing graduate students and postdoctorals (future faculty) for effective teaching in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Interestingly, little is known…

How Crafts Can Be a Science Learning Experience

Blog Post | December 2020

Integrating Engineering Design in Undergraduate Biology Using a Life Science Design Task

Journal Article | October 2019

This study examines the initial integration of engineering design in an introductory preservice elementary biology content course using a life science design task focused on composting.

Refine By Design

Journal Article | July 2022

Aligning Undergraduate Science Curricula With Three-Dimensional Learning

Journal Article | August 2022

Recent science reform advocates for the inclusion of engineering design to teach science and represents a shift to so-called three-dimensional (3D) learning. This shift often requires science instructors to adapt their…

Mystery Critters

Journal Article | September 2022

Going Viral!

Journal Article | January 2023

Preservice Teachers’ Meaningful Science Learning

Journal Article | January 2023

This article describes how preservice elementary teachers learn about the nature of science and develop scientific literacy through a collaborative project that prepares them to design meaningful learning experiences…

Cancer and Formaldehyde

Journal Article | April 2023

Ecosystem in a Jar

Journal Article | January 2021

Starting at the Beginning

Journal Article | April 2021

This study examines what prior knowledge and misconceptions about evolutionary theory students bring with them into an introductory biological anthropology course. One hundred and fifty-three students completed short,…