Promoting STEM Persistence Through an Innovative Field Trip–Based First-Year Experience Course

Journal Article | December 2020

At our small liberal arts college, we recently introduced a field trip–based course as a requirement for all first-year science majors. This course, entitled “The Urban Ecosystem,” explores various aspects of science…

Reflections on Multimodal Delivery of a Laboratory Course for Nonscience Majors and Opportunities for Improved Student Engagement

Journal Article | August 2022

A rudimentary level of scientific literacy is necessary in the general public. At the undergraduate level, this literacy can be achieved through general education courses offered in areas of natural sciences. Over the…

Gender Inequities Throughout STEM

Journal Article | January 2022

Efforts to promote equity and inclusion using evidence-based approaches are vital to correcting long-standing societal inequities that have disadvantaged women and discouraged them from pursuing studies, including in…

A Classic Case of Serial Murder

Case Study | March 2005

Teaching K–8 Teachers About Integrating Science and Engineering

Journal Article | July 2020

We examined the use of an engineering learning cycle (ELC) model and in a course for K–8 inservice teachers for two purposes. First, we were interested in how the ELC would support teachers’ science, mathematics, and…

The Fram Polar Expedition and Determining Latitude From Stars

Journal Article | March 2023

Look, It’s Changing!

Journal Article | August 2020

Science, Science, Everywhere

Journal Article | April 2023

What Lies Beneath?

Journal Article | January 2023

Cool It!

Journal Article | April 2023

Research Project-Based Learning in Meteorology Using an Online Severe Weather Events Archive

Journal Article | July 2023

This article presents a semester-long, interdisciplinary project-based learning (PBL) suitable for secondary and postsecondary students enrolled in a second-semester (i.e., intermediate) meteorology course. This case-…

Engineering Science Teacher Creativity!

Journal Article | February 2020

Shape, Bake, and Grow!

Journal Article | August 2020

Fun With Forces and Motion

Journal Article | April 2020

Perspectives on Teaching from Early-Career Scientists

Journal Article | March 2022

Many graduate students spend a part of their time teaching at the university level. While there is an abundance of advice from older, more established faculty, the perspective and teaching styles of graduate students…