Q: How Can I Foster Scientific Literacy in My Students?

Journal Article | July 2022

Investigating Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs About Teaching and Learning Science

Journal Article | May 2022

To inform teacher education programs, it is imperative to uncover preservice teachers’ (PSTs) implicit and tacit beliefs about teaching and learning science. The study of teachers’ beliefs requires a range of…

Science Portfolios

Journal Article | April 2021

Climate Justice: Science for a Better World

Journal Article | August 2021

Accomodating Visually Impaired Students in Secondary Science

Journal Article | November 2022

Shadow Size

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit children’s ideas about how light interacts with an object to form a shadow. The probe is designed to reveal children’s ideas about the size of a shadow in relation to…

Building Better Questions

Journal Article | January 2023

Preschoolers “On the Move” with Energy

Journal Article | January 2023

Technology and Scientific Habits of Mind

Journal Article | March 2021

Uncovering Students’ Ideas About Using Designs From Nature

Journal Article | January 2022

Animal Survival

Journal Article | March 2023

Beyond Doom and Gloom: Teaching Climate Change to Foster Empowerment

Journal Article | May 2023

Career of the Month: Astronomer

Journal Article | September 2022

Astronomers study objects that are outside of the Earth’s realm, such as stars, planets, comets, and galaxies. Chris Carilli is an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), which operates the…

COVID-19: One Year Later

Journal Article | June 2021

Chemicals Gone Funny

Journal Article | May 2022