From the Field: Events and Opportunities, September 21, 2021

Reports Article | September 2021

Teaching STEM During a Pandemic

Reports Article | November 2020

Safety Recommendations for Closing Out the School Year

Blog Post | June 2020

Indoor Air Quality Issues in the Science Instructional Space

Blog Post | December 2023

Science Instructional Space Safety Signage

Blog Post | November 2023

A Monarch Tapestry

Journal Article | September 2020

The SDM Finger

Journal Article | October 2019

Exploring makerspaces, engineering, and more

Making Critical Thinking Visible for Student Analysis and Reflection

Journal Article | March 2019

Practice critical-thinking skills with this phenomena-centered dinosaur bone activity.

Safety and School Science Instruction

Position Statement | June 2020

Ice-Cold Lemonade

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about transfer of energy. The probe is designed to determine whether students recognize that heat flows from warmer objects or areas to cooler ones.

Simulating a Non-Native Invasion

Journal Article | January 2019

Using Citizen Science to Engage Preservice Elementary Educators in Scientific Fieldwork

Journal Article | October 2016

Preservice elementary teachers’ lack of confidence in teaching science is an ongoing concern. Only 29% of elementary teachers in the field felt “very well prepared to teach life science,” according to the National…