The Importance of Professional Development

Journal Article | October 2021

Designing With Math and Science

Lesson Plan | August 2020

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about how science and math are both used in engineering. The probe is designed to get students to think about the various ways science and math are…

Evaluating Information: The Impact of Major, Class Standing, and Experience With Primary Literature

Journal Article | February 2020

Social media platforms and other internet sites may propagate inaccurate or misleading information. This misinformation encourages speculation, rumors, and mistrust in established science. In the current study, we…

Communicating in Science: Why It Matters

Journal Article | May 2021

Modeling the Melting of Permafrost

Journal Article | March 2022

Interdisciplinary Lessons on Energy and Entropy

Journal Article | May 2022

This article presents ideas and narratives of an experiment on the concept of energy developed for an honors seminar on energy and a mechanics course. We argue that energy is an idea best taught in an interdisciplinary…

Preservice Teachers’ Meaningful Science Learning

Journal Article | January 2023

This article describes how preservice elementary teachers learn about the nature of science and develop scientific literacy through a collaborative project that prepares them to design meaningful learning experiences…

Testing for Success

Lesson Plan | August 2020

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ initial ideas and attitudes about the procedure that should be followed when testing models to determine if a design solves the problem. The probe is designed…

The Downstream Collaborative Project

Journal Article | May 2020

What’s Inside Our Solar System?

Lesson Plan | July 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the solar system. The probe is designed to find out if students can distinguish between objects in the solar system and objects outside of the…

Equity in the Science Classroom

Journal Article | April 2022

Transitioning an In-Person Elementary STEM After-School Program to Distance Learning During COVID-19

Journal Article | March 2022

Cool It!

Journal Article | April 2023

Using Open-World Games to Support Inclusive Approaches to Computational Thinking

Journal Article | February 2023

Launching Inquiry Into Motion

Journal Article | October 2021