Humans and the Earth: A Relationship

Journal Article | March 2022

What Do You Know About Soil?

Journal Article | July 2022

Using Formative Assessment Probes With Real or Virtual Field Trips

Journal Article | September 2020

The Upcoming Solar Eclipses

Journal Article | October 2023

Investigating Earth’s Interactions

Journal Article | May 2020

Modeling the Melting of Permafrost

Journal Article | March 2022

Ocean Influences Climate

Journal Article | March 2022

Messy Data, Real Science

Journal Article | May 2020

[A] major goal for science education should be to provide all students with the background to systematically investigate issues related to their personal and community priorities. They should be able to frame…

Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, January 14, 2025

Reports Article | January 2025

Geoscience Education and Motivated Reasoning

Journal Article | July 2020

Individuals use information selectively, in ways that support group beliefs or one’s psychological needs—this is motivated reasoning. Motivated reasoning is revealed in correlations between (1) opinions/…

Student-Driven Citizen Science

Journal Article | September 2019

Investigating marine plastic pollution

Turning Tests Into Tasks

Journal Article | February 2019

Learn how to build a summative performance assessment from a standardized test question.

Global Warming

Lesson Plan | July 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about global warming. The probe is designed to find out what students think contributes to global warming.

Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers From the Field, June 21, 2022

Reports Article | June 2022