Incorporating Student-Centered Learning in an Ecosystems Course

Journal Article | October 2021

Student-centered learning broadly encompasses teaching approaches that shift the focus of instruction from teacher to student by placing an emphasis on what as well as how students want to learn. This approach allows…

Where Does Your Sidewalk End?

Journal Article | October 2021

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…

Q: Do you have a weather-related activity that my students would enjoy?

Journal Article | September 2022

Making C-E-R 'Attractive' for Elementary Teacher Candidates

Journal Article | July 2022

Shattering the Language Barrier

Journal Article | July 2023

What’s in a Wave?

Journal Article | February 2021

Engineering Your Own Liquid Soap

Journal Article | March 2021

Earth Watch

Journal Article | April 2021

Physics Activities With Metersticks

Journal Article | April 2021

Making Sense of Sickle Cell Disease

Journal Article | November 2021

Wildfire!

Journal Article | November 2022

What is in Our Air?

Journal Article | March 2023

Teaching Assistant Responses to COVID-19

Journal Article | January 2023

Undergraduate and graduate teaching assistants (TAs) are tasked with instructing undergraduate courses with little to no professional development (PD). To better develop PD opportunities, it is important to understand…

Students Taught by a First-Time Instructor Using Active-Learning Teaching Strategies Outperform Students Taught by a Highly-Regarded Traditional Instructor

Journal Article | February 2021

In this paper we put forth a model for physics course reform that uniquely uses proven, research-based active-learning strategies to help students improve their physics knowledge and problem-solving skills. In this…