Teacher Spotlight: Steve Metz

Journal Article | January 2021

The Return of the River Herring

Journal Article | February 2021

Poems Can Take Us Anywhere

Journal Article | September 2020

Wind Erosion and the Dust Bowl

Journal Article | May 2020

Exponential Growth and Doubling Time

Journal Article | June 2020

Using Insect Biodiversity to Build Basic Skills

Journal Article | March 2019

Student-Driven Citizen Science

Journal Article | September 2019

Investigating marine plastic pollution

Science Learning in the Early Years

Journal Article | August 2020

Doing Science at Home

Journal Article | February 2020

Moving Continents

Journal Article | December 2020

Beyond General-Purpose Talk Moves

Journal Article | September 2020

Science Identity and Its Implications for STEM Retention and Career Aspirations Through a Research-Based First-Year Biology Seminar

Journal Article | August 2022

There are more STEM jobs than there are qualified graduates to fill these positions, and recruiting students into STEM majors is insufficient. Of students who enter college intending to pursue STEM, nearly half do not…

Promoting STEM Persistence Through an Innovative Field Trip–Based First-Year Experience Course

Journal Article | October 2019

The authors describe how they introduced a field trip–based course as a requirement for all first-year science majors.

Rotting Apple

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about decay and decomposers. The probe can be used to determine whether students recognize the need for a biological agent to break down once-living…

Thinking Big

Journal Article | March 2020