Integrating Engineering Design in Undergraduate Biology Using a Life Science Design Task

Journal Article | October 2019

This study examines the initial integration of engineering design in an introductory preservice elementary biology content course using a life science design task focused on composting.

Applying the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) Framework During a Community College Chemistry Project-Based Learning Activity

Journal Article | October 2020

Project-based learning (PBL) instructional methods attempt to make connections between students and their ability to solve real problems. We framed our qualitative study within sociocultural theory and used the…

Count Birds for Science This Winter With Project FeederWatch

Journal Article | December 2020

Mapping Stakeholders

Journal Article | September 2020

Arguing About a Chemical Change

Journal Article | February 2020

Use a sample ACT writing prompt in an explore-before-explain instructional sequence to a 9th-grade physical science class to promote student learning and demonstrate that mass is conserved in a chemical reaction

Formative Assessment of English Language Proficiency in the Science Classroom

Journal Article | July 2020

Making Sound

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about sound. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that sound is produced by vibrating matter.

Data Investigations to Further Social Justice Inside and Outside of STEM

Journal Article | January 2021

What Is Happening to Our Water?

Journal Article | March 2022

Analyzing and Interpreting Data to Support Student Sensemaking in a High School Evolution Unit

Professional Learning Unit | September 2024

This Professional Learning Unit uses a storyline unit with an anchoring phenomenon that is a case study in which the patient has acute mountain sickness at Everest base camp to focus participant learning on how the…

Illuminating the Universe

Journal Article | August 2020

Piloting Virtual Field Trips During a Pandemic

Journal Article | April 2022

Introducing Engineering as an Altruistic STEM Career

Journal Article | February 2021

Is It Made of Parts?

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit children’s developing ideas about structure in living systems. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize that living things are made up of parts.

Constructive Error Climate: A Classroom Assessment Technique in Science Classes

Journal Article | April 2020

Although making errors in the learning process is common, it is usually perceived by students as something negative and a potential threat to self-esteem. Such perception often prevents students from considering errors…