Using Toys to Create a Global Connection

Journal Article | July 2021

STEM Teaching Tools: Guidance for Justice-Centered Climate Change Teaching and Learning

Journal Article | September 2021

A Hands-on Activity to Understand the Nature of Science and Authentic Scientific Inquiry in Large Laboratory Courses

Journal Article | May 2023

Integrating authentic research practices into introductory laboratory courses to prepare tomorrow’s scientists has become increasingly prevalent over the past decade. However, an incomplete understanding of the nature…

Newton’s Prisms

Journal Article | November 2020

Speleologist Bill Steele

Journal Article | March 2020

How our daily lives affect biodiversity

Journal Article | September 2019

Updating Perennial Classroom Favorites

Should Our City's Wastewater Treatment System Produce Ammonia?

Lesson Plan | February 2022

Cookie Jar Alarms

Journal Article | September 2019

This column describes creating a classroom culture for engineering.

Changes in Elementary Teachers’ Conceptions About Matter

Journal Article | October 2020

While research has investigated elementary teachers’ understanding of science content, such research is often limited to topics typically not addressed in elementary school curricula. Yet, research has illustrated that…

Enhancing Environmental Identity: The Ocean Guardian Project

Journal Article | November 2020

Castles in the Sky

Journal Article | March 2023

Learning to Teach with Science Representations

Journal Article | January 2023

Physics in the Sport of Boxing—A Personal Story

Journal Article | February 2021

Plants in the Dark and Light

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about plant growth. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize that plants use their stored food to grow in the absence of light.

The River Damned

Case Study | June 2002