Q: What are waves, and what are some things they can do?

Journal Article | September 2020

How Slow Is Your Parachute?

Journal Article | July 2021

Facilitating Conceptual Change by Engaging Students’ Preconceptions During College Science Classroom Instruction

Journal Article | January 2021

Whether to engage student preconceptions to facilitate conceptual change is an area of debate among conceptual change theorists. Here, we evaluate the efficacy of a preconceptions-based instructional sequence about…

Sustainability, Energy, and the Green Economy

Journal Article | January 2021

Interdisciplinary education offers a collaborative approach to multifaceted topics, such as environmental sustainability. In this article, we present the conceptual framework and lessons learned from a team-taught…

Making It Bounce

Journal Article | December 2020

KEYS High School Student Internship Program

Journal Article | March 2019

NASA’s Universe of Learning

Journal Article | August 2020

Codesigning With Indigenous Families and Educators

Journal Article | July 2020

Newspaper Physics for First-Year College Students

Journal Article | January 2023

This article describes and illustrates a physics course for first-year college students whose only knowledge of physics is that they do not like the subject. The physics content is driven entirely by what appears in…

Celebrating Diversity and Inclusion in Science Education

Blog Post | September 2024

The Tuskegee Airmen: Teaching the 4Cs

Journal Article | March 2020

Why Does the Moon Look Like That Again?

Journal Article | September 2020

How I Inadvertently Misled Some Students

Journal Article | July 2023

Clear key results and simple figures have clear advantages when teaching. However, these same properties can mislead some students. I provide examples from my presentation on the body mass index, Centers for Disease…

Walking the Slope

Journal Article | January 2021

Too Many Deer!

Case Study | March 2001