The Greenhouse Effect

Lesson Plan | July 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the greenhouse effect. The probe is designed to reveal whether students confuse the greenhouse effect with other environmental concerns or lump the…

Innovative Technology Enhances Outdoor Learning Experiences With Playground Physics

Journal Article | July 2023

Wood Dust in the Lab—A Major Safety Issue!

Blog Post | March 2021

Data Investigations to Further Social Justice Inside and Outside of STEM

Journal Article | January 2021

Spaceships

Lesson Plan | June 2021

This probe is designed to elicit students’ ideas about changing the direction of motion in the absence of air. Many students will have seen movies or television shows in which spaceships turn by banking or using wing…

Bird Biodiversity

Journal Article | March 2023

Book Review: Integrating STEM Teaching and Learning into the K–2 Classroom

Journal Article | January 2021

Visualizing U.S. Energy Use and Production 50 Years Ago

Journal Article | April 2021

What Is a STEM Learning Ecosystem? Lessons From the Natural World

Journal Article | November 2021

Jim and the Forgotten Embryos

Case Study | February 2012

Cultivating Digital Literacy

Journal Article | April 2021

Where Does Your Sidewalk End?

Journal Article | October 2021

We Are Living It

Journal Article | January 2023

Justice-Centered STEM Education With Multilingual Learners

Journal Article | April 2023

Does It Have to Touch?

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit beginning ideas about types of forces. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that forces can act both in direct contact with an object and at a…