Advice to Future Participants From Six Cohorts of an Undergraduate Summer Research Program in Atmospheric Science

Journal Article | January 2023

Many undergraduates use research internships to gain experience for graduate school. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs involve heavy research and lab work duties, for which students are…

Investigating the Resurrection Plant

Journal Article | March 2019

Using discrepant events to confront misconceptions.

Ocean Influences Climate

Journal Article | March 2022

Teaching Green Chemistry Through Student-Generated Open Educational Resources

Journal Article | March 2023

This article describes the implementation of a student-generated open educational resource project into a majors’ organic chemistry laboratory. This scaffolded semester-long project was organized into six phases and…

Going Viral

Journal Article | June 2021

Practice Makes Better

Journal Article | January 2021

Practice effects are ubiquitous human phenomena that have been scientifically studied for over half a century. They are also among the most directly applicable psychological phenomenon, holding broad implications for…

STEM Education Needs STEM Talk

Journal Article | October 2021

Exploring the Effects of a Neglected Area

Journal Article | January 2022

One of the major challenges of teaching science has been engaging students in discussions of concepts due to lack of perceived relevancy of topics to students’ individual goals and societal issues. Science has been…

Wet Jeans

Lesson Plan | August 2020

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the water cycle. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that water goes into the air around us after it evaporates.

Teaching Assistant Responses to COVID-19

Journal Article | January 2023

Undergraduate and graduate teaching assistants (TAs) are tasked with instructing undergraduate courses with little to no professional development (PD). To better develop PD opportunities, it is important to understand…

Use of a Linked-Course Model to Teach Scientific Writing to First-Year Undergraduates

Journal Article | February 2021

The ability to read and compose original scientific literature is critical to educating informed citizens, yet may be severely lacking in undergraduate curricula. We developed a linked course offering in fall 2017…

Service-Learning Through Citizen Science in a COVID-Adapted Classroom

Journal Article | November 2022

Classrooms were turned upside down amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, which began approximately halfway through the spring 2020 semester. A service-learning project was implemented in my section of a general biology…

Why Wetlands Matter

Journal Article | October 2019

Lemonade

Lesson Plan | August 2020

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about conservation of matter. The probe is designed to reveal whether students think matter is conserved when a substance is dissolved in a liquid.

In Memoriam: Uri Haber-Schaim

Blog Post | October 2020