Is It “Fitter”?

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about natural selection. The probe is designed to find out how students interpret the commonly used phrase “survival of the fittest.”

A Perfect Storm

Journal Article | March 2022

This point of view article uses a social science lens in an attempt to understand the differing environments of the two institutions (private and public) where I taught chemistry for 3 decades. I hypothesize that…

Farmers vs. Rabbits

Journal Article | March 2023

Designing Wildlife Crossings

Journal Article | July 2023

The Petition

Case Study | September 2002

The Zarkah Stone

Case Study | August 2005

Improving Preservice Elementary Teachers’ Engineering Teaching Efficacy Beliefs With 3D Design and Printing

Journal Article | December 2020

The Framework for K–12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) under-score the importance of including engineering design process (EDP) within the science curriculum. The Framework and the…

Promoting Sensemaking Through an Impactful Instructional Sequence

Journal Article | July 2023

An Evolution in Teaching Natural Selection

Journal Article | January 2023

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,…

Empowering Salieri

Journal Article | November 2021

In Memoriam: Uri Haber-Schaim

Blog Post | October 2020

Data at a Distance

Journal Article | January 2022

The (Trans)Formative Assessment Planning Template

Journal Article | January 2023

Mapping the impact of the schoolyard on watershed health

Journal Article | September 2019

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