Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers: June 17, 2025

Reports Article | June 2025

Go Ahead—Mimic Me: How Plants and Animals Inspire Inventions and Design

Journal Article | July 2023

Some of You Are Smiling Now

Journal Article | April 2022

Why Are There Coral in the Cliffs?

Journal Article | January 2021

Give Them the Tools and They Will Explore

Journal Article | February 2021

Making Group Work Natural

Journal Article | September 2022

Cultivating Place

Journal Article | March 2021

STEM Scholars’ Sense of Community During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal Article | August 2021

The purpose of this study was to investigate sense of community (SOC) within a STEM learning community during the COVID-19 pandemic. The STEM learning community that was the setting for this study is funded by a…

Integrated Concentration in Science

Journal Article | January 2022

The Integrated Concentration in Science (iCons) 4-year program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst was designed to promote interdisciplinary STEM collaboration in the solution of real-world problems and encourage…

Mass, Volume, and Density

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about density. The probe is designed to find out whether students have commonly held ideas about mass, volume, shape, and other properties that interfere…

AI in the Science Classroom

Blog Post | September 2024

A Design Heuristic for Analyzing and Interpreting Data

Journal Article | August 2022

Students reasoning with data in an authentic science environment had the opportunity to learn about the process of science and the world around them while developing skills to analyze and interpret self-collected and…

Accomodating Visually Impaired Students in Secondary Science

Journal Article | November 2022

At Home With Bats

Journal Article | February 2020