Making Sound

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about sound. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that sound is produced by vibrating matter.

STEM Career Expos Expose Potential Paths

Reports Article | March 2020

Gearing Up Instructional Spaces Safety-Wise for the New School Year, Part I

Blog Post | July 2023

Meeting the Challenges of Remote Learning

Reports Article | June 2020

Identi-Beads and Identi-Badges as Strategies to Encourage STEM Identity Work

Journal Article | July 2021

From the Field: Events and Opportunities, June 1, 2021

Reports Article | May 2021

Do I Belong in STEM?

Case Study | September 2020

From the Field: Events and Opportunities, October 13, 2020

Reports Article | October 2020

Fostering Reflective Teaching

Journal Article | March 2022

The Student Participation Observation Tool (SPOT) is a web-based classroom observation protocol developed for higher education STEM courses and based on research on evidence-based practices. The low-inference and…

Modifying Traditional Labs to Target Scientific Reasoning

Journal Article | December 2020

This article showcases how a physics lab course was successfully redesigned to promote important reasoning abilities not explicitly addressed in the typical college setting. Student development of such abilities is…

A Monarch Tapestry

Journal Article | September 2020

STEM Lab Safety Zones for Hazardous Areas

Blog Post | March 2022