STEM Education Within the West Point Experience

Journal Article | June 2021

At conferences or meetings, West Point faculty are often asked, “What’s it like to teach at West Point?” To answer this question we present the unique model that West Point uses to bridge traditional higher education…

Understanding Severe Weather Events

Journal Article | May 2023

Mountaintop Fossil

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about mountain formation. The probe is designed to determine whether students recognize that some mountains are formed from the uplift of Earth’s crust…

Place-Based Education and Community Knowledge Connect Youth to Water Topics

Journal Article | August 2023

Making Sense of the Human Body

Journal Article | April 2020

Are Learning Progressions a Useful Pedagogical Tool for Instructors?

Journal Article | October 2021

Learning progressions (LPs) present a potential tool to guide students toward deeper understanding of core concepts as they move through a curriculum. In addition to providing a theoretical scheme for education…

Heat Reinvented

Journal Article | August 2021

The Hot and Cold of Volcanoes

Journal Article | October 2021

Joyful Science

Journal Article | September 2022

What is in Our Air?

Journal Article | March 2023

Collaboration Through Critical Service Learning—In Search of Earth’s Secrets

Journal Article | September 2023

Some Like It Hot

Journal Article | February 2021

Discovering Diversity

Journal Article | March 2020

STEM Scholars’ Sense of Community During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Journal Article | August 2021

The purpose of this study was to investigate sense of community (SOC) within a STEM learning community during the COVID-19 pandemic. The STEM learning community that was the setting for this study is funded by a…

Teaching With Simulations

Journal Article | February 2019

Teachers use simulations for student motivation, content learning, and engagement in science practices.