What’s Up With Gravity?

Journal Article | May 2023

Talking About Forces

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit beginning ideas about forces. The probe is designed to reveal whether students generally identify forces as pushes and pulls.

Courageous Cheetah Car

Journal Article | November 2022

Spaceships

Lesson Plan | June 2021

This probe is designed to elicit students’ ideas about changing the direction of motion in the absence of air. Many students will have seen movies or television shows in which spaceships turn by banking or using wing…

Impression Obsession

Journal Article | January 2021

Extending Engineering Learning Beyond Field Trips

Journal Article | September 2020

Incorporating Principles of Social Justice, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Classroom

Journal Article | July 2022

Using Summary Tables to Support Students’ Explanations of Science Phenomena

Journal Article | November 2022

You Don’t Have to be a Rocket Scientist

Journal Article | May 2022

The Quantum Mechanical Student

Journal Article | May 2022

Landslides

Journal Article | February 2021

Apple in a Plane

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about force related to the interaction between inanimate objects. The probe is designed to determine which forces students think act on an object at rest…

Equal and Opposite

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about pairs of forces that fit Newton’s third law. The probe is specifically designed to reveal whether students can identify third law force pairs as…

Moments in the Science Classroom

Journal Article | January 2022

Bringing Engineering Into Play

Journal Article | November 2022