A Diet to Die For

Case Study | May 2012

Improving the Quality of Engineering Design Challenges

Journal Article | January 2019

Is It Affordable?

Lesson Plan | August 2020

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about trade-offs. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize that trade-offs involve sacrificing one or more things in favor of another…

Picking the Best Solution

Lesson Plan | August 2020

The purpose of this assessment probe is to provide practice in using a decision matrix. The probe is designed to see if students are able to interpret a decision matrix and to help you determine difficulties they may…

Project-Based Learning: Principles to Sustain Student Learning and Teacher Change in Practice - Part 1

Professional Learning Unit | July 2023

Have you wanted to implement a Project-Based Learning (PBL) unit in your classroom? Would you like to introduce PBL curriculum in your school? Multiple Literacies in Project-Based Learning (ML-PBL), an open educational…

How Do Students Interact With the Primary Scientific Literature in an Undergraduate Science Program?

Journal Article | January 2023

The ability to read, understand, and interpret primary scientific literature is an essential skill for undergraduate students in science. This study aimed to provide a detailed understanding of how second- and third-…

The End of Something: Blick on Flicks Looks Back

Reports Article | August 2020

Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, September 3, 2024

Reports Article | August 2024

Muscle Recovery

Playlist | May 2025

Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, September 19, 2023

Reports Article | September 2023

Equal and Opposite

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about pairs of forces that fit Newton’s third law. The probe is specifically designed to reveal whether students can identify third law force pairs as…

Apple in a Plane

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about force related to the interaction between inanimate objects. The probe is designed to determine which forces students think act on an object at rest…

Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, November 22, 2022

Reports Article | November 2022

Rosie Revere’s Orangutan Dilemma

Journal Article | December 2020