The Importance of Teaching and Learning About the Ocean: Ocean Literacy as a Critical Component of Science and Environmental Literacy

Position Statement | March 2025

Teacher Pay

Position Statement | March 2025

Elementary School Science

Position Statement | June 2020

Issues of Question Equivalence in Online Exam Pools

Journal Article | March 2023

During the pandemic, the use of question pools for online testing was recommended to mitigate cheating, exposing multitudes of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) students across the globe to this…

Implementing SEL in STEM—Challenges and Opportunities

Journal Article | June 2023

Measuring Data Skills in Undergraduate Student Work

Journal Article | February 2021

Data literacy, or students’ abilities to understand, interpret, and think critically about data, is an increasing need in K–16 science education. Ocean Tracks College Edition (OT-CE) sought to address this need by…

Cultivating Place

Journal Article | March 2021

Heat Reinvented

Journal Article | August 2021

Shape, Bake, and Grow!

Journal Article | August 2020

Dinosaur Detectives

Journal Article | December 2020

Start With Art

Journal Article | April 2020

Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, January 17, 2022

Reports Article | January 2023

Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, October 31, 2023

Reports Article | October 2023

Pizza Problem

Lesson Plan | August 2020

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about researching a problem. The probe is designed to determine the extent to which students are aware of the need to learn as much as possible about how…

Is It Made of Parts?

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit children’s developing ideas about structure in living systems. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize that living things are made up of parts.