Spicing Up Your Classroom With Games

Journal Article | February 2019

Games allow teachers to interact with their students in a different way than they normally do. They also have the potential to challenge and assess students’ understanding of content. Games allow me to “play” with my…

Layers of Phenomena

Journal Article | July 2022

Cancer and Formaldehyde

Journal Article | April 2023

Making Everyday Phenomena Phenomenal

Journal Article | April 2020

Remembering Bill Aldridge

Blog Post | April 2022

Surface Shape Shifting

Journal Article | September 2022

Use of Interrupted Case Studies to Promote Argumentation in Chemistry

Journal Article | March 2023

There has been an increase in the number of studies about educational scenarios aimed at promoting argumentation. Special attention is given to scenarios involving case studies. In this article, we report on the…

A Case for Creative Coding

Journal Article | April 2021

Models for Developing Explanations of Earth’s Dynamic Plate System

Journal Article | March 2022

Will It Form a New Substance?

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about chemical change. The probe is designed to find out how students determine whether a new substance with a different chemical makeup is formed when…

Modeling the Coronavirus Outbreak for Cross-Discipline Teaching

Journal Article | October 2020

The Coronavirus outbreak allows for a number of possible applications to classroom teaching (biology, computer science, Earth science, physics, statistics), as well as student research. A number of simple models…

How the Data Got Their Dots

Journal Article | January 2022

Right Under Our Noses

Journal Article | January 2023

Immerse Elementary Students in Light Explorations

Journal Article | October 2021

From the Field: Events and Opportunities, May 4, 2021

Reports Article | April 2021