Enhancing Science Lessons to Support Multilingual Students’ Engagement in Science and Engineering Practices

Journal Article | January 2021

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

Journal Article | October 2023

Touching the Solar System: A Project-Based Learning Astronomy Program for Students With Visual Impairments

Journal Article | August 2022

The Science Symposium

Journal Article | September 2022

Crosscutting Concepts as Productive Ways of Thinking

Journal Article | August 2019

Tips and techniques for creative teaching

Are Learning Progressions a Useful Pedagogical Tool for Instructors?

Journal Article | October 2021

Learning progressions (LPs) present a potential tool to guide students toward deeper understanding of core concepts as they move through a curriculum. In addition to providing a theoretical scheme for education…

Ninja Nerds

Journal Article | October 2021

Utilizing Picture Books to Teach Through Notable Females in Science

Journal Article | December 2020

Motivating Three-Dimensional Learning From Students’ Questions

Journal Article | August 2021

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…

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…

Developing the Next Generation of Elementary Science Teachers

Journal Article | December 2020

National science education documents emphasize new learning outcomes of elementary students; therefore, the preparation of elementary teachers should be revised to meet these challenges. This article describes how…

Open Innovation Challenge to Mitigate Global Warming

Journal Article | September 2023

Collaboration Crushes Competition!

Journal Article | June 2021

Is It Made of Cells?

Lesson Plan | August 2020

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about cells. The probe is designed to find out how students think about matter composed of cells.