Building Bridges

Journal Article | December 2020

We describe a hands-on, collaborative activity designed to illustrate general properties of evolution, provide practice for quantitative skills, promote creativity and collaboration, and enable student self-assessment…

What Is Sensemaking?

Professional Learning Unit | October 2021

Learn to recognize the four critical attributes of sensemaking and how these attributes work together to help ensure all students have access and a strong desire to learn science. 

Socially Transformative Teaching

Journal Article | March 2022

Particulate Matters

Journal Article | July 2022

Placemat Instructions

Journal Article | January 2023

STEM Outreach: Traditional vs. Virtual Summer Programming

Journal Article | April 2021

Oil Spill eSTEMation

Journal Article | April 2021

Impacts of a Prerequisite Online Laboratory Course

Journal Article | March 2023

In response to remote learning needs during the COVID-19 pandemic, introductory lecture and laboratory courses typically delivered fully in person were offered in a completely virtual format for the first time.…

Pandemic-Inspired Insights

Journal Article | August 2021

College instructors faced a rapid transition to remote instruction in spring 2020, and with it a host of new teaching challenges. This qualitative study investigates what 26 college biology instructors learned about…

Extending Engineering Learning Beyond Field Trips

Journal Article | September 2020

Student-Constructed Weather Instruments Facilitate Scientific Inquiry

Journal Article | February 2020

Students in introductory college science courses often have a simplified understanding of the scientific method. To introduce students to the complexity of the scientific process and the value of empirical observations…

Where Do Fossil Fuels Come From?

Journal Article | September 2019

Warming waters

Journal Article | September 2019

Astronomy throughout the year