Evaluating Lessons for Sensemaking Using the NSTA Sensemaking Tool

Professional Learning Unit | September 2022

The NSTA Sensemaking Tool (adapted from the research-based NGSS Lesson Screener) is designed to help educators be critical consumers of curricular materials as well as create and/or revise science lessons to reflect the…

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…

Engaging Students in Science Learning: A Productive Approach to Classroom Management

Professional Learning Unit | February 2024

In this module, participants consider the relationship between fostering student engagement through tapping into their curiosity and positive behavior choices in the classroom. Participants explore two different ways of…

Making Everyday Phenomena Phenomenal

Journal Article | April 2020

Finding the Next Diamond Mine

Journal Article | May 2020

Ramp It Up!

Journal Article | February 2019

Preschoolers investigate force and motion with a digital journal.

Focusing the Lens of the Crosscutting Concepts on Secondary Science Learning

Journal Article | March 2022

Science in Your Stacks

Journal Article | December 2020

Re-imagining the Role of Families as Equal Partners in STEM Learning

Journal Article | December 2020