Making Science Personal

Journal Article | January 2021

General education college astronomy courses offer instructors both a unique audience and a unique challenge. For many students, such a course may be their first time encountering a stand-alone astronomy class, and it is…

Comics in the Classroom

Journal Article | March 2020

NASA’s Universe of Learning

Journal Article | August 2020

Family-Based Astronomy

Journal Article | December 2020

Biosand Filters for Water Purification

Journal Article | February 2021

Changing Constellations

Lesson Plan | July 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about why the constellations change with the seasons. The probe is designed to find out how students use the Earth’s spin and orbit to explain why…

Science in Your Stacks

Journal Article | December 2020

A Design Heuristic for Analyzing and Interpreting Data

Journal Article | August 2022

Students reasoning with data in an authentic science environment had the opportunity to learn about the process of science and the world around them while developing skills to analyze and interpret self-collected and…

The Moon

Case Study | April 2019

Science That’s Out of This World

Journal Article | June 2020

Up To the Moon!

Journal Article | December 2020

A Layered Approach to Scientific Models

Journal Article | August 2020

Get Ready for the 2023-24 Solar Eclipse 'Double-Header'

Blog Post | August 2023