“Yours Needs To Be More Like Mine!” What Does Competition Look Like in Informal Engineering Design Activities?

Journal Article | October 2023

Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers From the Field, June 14, 2022

Reports Article | June 2022

Science in the Literacy Block

Journal Article | December 2020

Exploring the Role of Student Seating Preference and Performance in a Large Introductory STEM Course

Journal Article | March 2023

Most introductory courses are held in large lecture halls, with students typically sitting in either the front, middle, or back of the classroom. In a mixed-methods study of student attendance, performance, and seat…

Commitments for Connected STEM

Journal Article | January 2022

Science Buddies

Journal Article | October 2019

How-to strategies and classroom management tips

Turning Tests Into Tasks

Journal Article | February 2019

Learn how to build a summative performance assessment from a standardized test question.

Chicken Eggs

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about food, transformation of matter, growth and development, conservation of mass, and systems. The concepts underlying this probe are complex. It is…

Model of Air Inside a Jar

Lesson Plan | July 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the particle model of matter. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize that air is made up of particles that are widely spaced with…

The SAEBL Checklist

Journal Article | August 2020

Student-Driven Citizen Science

Journal Article | September 2019

Investigating marine plastic pollution

What Makes Them Tick? Middle School Data Science Explorations of Ticks and Lyme Disease

Journal Article | September 2020

In Memoriam: Uri Haber-Schaim

Blog Post | October 2020

The REACH Program Brings Science Practices to Students: A Teacher’s Perspective

Journal Article | November 2021

Rising Temperatures, Differing Viewpoints

Case Study | October 2005