Science in Your Stacks

Journal Article | December 2020

Making Critical Thinking Visible for Student Analysis and Reflection

Journal Article | March 2019

Practice critical-thinking skills with this phenomena-centered dinosaur bone activity.

A Water Wheel Challenge!

Journal Article | January 2019

A Framework for Effective Dissemination of Innovative STEM Curricula

Journal Article | July 2020

Do Plants Breathe?

Journal Article | February 2019

The idea that plants do photosynthesis but do not do cellular respiration is a common misconception among middle and high school students that often stems from an over-simplification of these processes in diagrams and…

Building Engagement in STEM Through Career Courses at Two-Year Institutions

Journal Article | October 2019

This month's Two-Year Community column describes how Geo-Launchpad, a program funded by the NSF, exposes students to internships and research opportunities that promote postsecondary education or workforce employment in…

Unpacking the STEM Disciplines

Journal Article | January 2019

Outcomes for Peer-Based Mentors in a University-Wide STEM Persistence Program: A Three-Year Analysis

Journal Article | April 2020

While the majority of STEM persistence has focused on outcomes for first-year students, there has been little investigation into the outcomes for peer mentors. Of the studies conducted, results are promising. Benefits…

Frogs Need Homes and Other Ecological Lessons

Journal Article | August 2020

Moving Continents

Journal Article | December 2020

Investigating the Resurrection Plant

Journal Article | March 2019

Using discrepant events to confront misconceptions.

Student-Driven Citizen Science

Journal Article | September 2019

Investigating marine plastic pollution

Investigating Earth’s Interactions

Journal Article | May 2020

A balloon that does not burn

Journal Article | September 2019

Using discrepant events to confront misconceptions