Why Does Water Swirl When it Goes Down a Drain?

Journal Article | January 2019

Castles in the Sky

Journal Article | March 2023

Differentiation in the Life Science Classroom Using Station Rotations

Journal Article | May 2022

Does This Count as Work?

Journal Article | July 2022

Eco Chess

Journal Article | January 2023

Learning About Culture and Sustainable Harvesting of Native Plants

Journal Article | March 2021

Intentional, Creative, Powerful

Journal Article | January 2022

Shadow Size

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit children’s ideas about how light interacts with an object to form a shadow. The probe is designed to reveal children’s ideas about the size of a shadow in relation to…

Planting 3D Instruction in Your Classroom

Journal Article | June 2020

Turning Tests Into Tasks

Journal Article | February 2019

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

Changing Constellations

Lesson Plan | July 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about why the constellations change with the seasons. The probe is designed to find out how students use the Earth’s spin and orbit to explain why…

Freezing Lake Phenomenon

Journal Article | July 2022

Tech-Rich Approaches to Three-Dimensional Teaching

Journal Article | August 2021