Teaching Nature of Science Concepts in the Context of Past (Fram) and Present (MOSAiC) Arctic Expeditions

Journal Article | February 2021

Hurricane Season

Journal Article | August 2019

Science and current events

Geoscience Education and Motivated Reasoning

Journal Article | July 2020

Individuals use information selectively, in ways that support group beliefs or one’s psychological needs—this is motivated reasoning. Motivated reasoning is revealed in correlations between (1) opinions/…

What is in Our Air?

Journal Article | March 2023

Landslides

Journal Article | February 2021

What Lies Beneath?

Journal Article | January 2023

Investigating Urban Trees

Journal Article | February 2020

Coldest Winter Ever!

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about weather versus climate. The probe is designed to find out if students distinguish between a one-time weather-related change and a change in climate…

Science Instructional Space Safety During Summer Recess

Blog Post | June 2023

Multimodal Text Sets to Use Literature and Engage All Learners in the Science Classroom

Journal Article | December 2020

Clickers Are Not Enough: Results of a Decade-Long Study Investigating Instructional Strategies in Chemistry

Journal Article | February 2020

Studies on the effectiveness of clickers in undergraduate chemistry courses are mixed, and there is disagreement on how to effectively leverage clickers to improve student learning performance. To fill a gap in the…

Using Insect Biodiversity to Build Basic Skills

Journal Article | March 2019

Peroxide-Building Chemicals: An Accident Sleeper

Blog Post | July 2022

Freezing Ice

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about freezing point. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize that the temperature at which water freezes is independent of the volume.