Family-Based Astronomy

Journal Article | December 2020

The Never-Ending Contamination

Case Study | August 2016

Growing STEM Learning Opportunities With Agriculture

Journal Article | October 2020

Chimborazo Then and Now

Journal Article | December 2020

Teaching Nature of Science Concepts in the Context of Past (Fram) and Present (MOSAiC) Arctic Expeditions

Journal Article | February 2021

Facilitating Conceptual Change by Engaging Students’ Preconceptions During College Science Classroom Instruction

Journal Article | January 2021

Whether to engage student preconceptions to facilitate conceptual change is an area of debate among conceptual change theorists. Here, we evaluate the efficacy of a preconceptions-based instructional sequence about…

Developing and Using Computer Models to Understand Epidemics

Journal Article | January 2022

Student Acceptance of Evolution

Journal Article | November 2022

Acceptance of human evolution seems to be the majority position for the U.S. population; however, acceptance of evolution among conservative Christian groups is low, sometimes below 50%. There are many different reasons…

Investigating Urban Trees

Journal Article | March 2019

Mobile geospatial technologies enable high school students to engage in authentic scientific data collection and analysis that promote spatial-thinking and reasoning skills, as well as problem-solving in a school’s…

Early Childhood Engineering and Natural Resources

Journal Article | August 2020

Watch Your Step

Case Study | August 2002

Needs of Seeds

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about seeds. The probe is designed to find out what students think most seeds need to germinate.