Making Science Personal

Journal Article | January 2021

General education college astronomy courses offer instructors both a unique audience and a unique challenge. For many students, such a course may be their first time encountering a stand-alone astronomy class, and it is…

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.

Freezing Lake Phenomenon

Journal Article | July 2022

Tech-Rich Approaches to Three-Dimensional Teaching

Journal Article | August 2021

Where on Earth Is Mars?

Journal Article | November 2022