Young Architects at Play: STEM Activities for Young Children

Journal Article | October 2021

Chicken Eggs

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about food, transformation of matter, growth and development, conservation of mass, and systems. The concepts underlying this probe are complex. It is…

The Science of COVID-19

Journal Article | January 2023

Data Investigations to Further Social Justice Inside and Outside of STEM

Journal Article | January 2021

Engaging Students at All Academic Levels in an Inquiry-Based Paleoecologic Learning Activity—Even When You Don’t Have the Rocks

Journal Article | October 2021

Inquiry-based learning is an educational strategy that emphasizes the student’s role in the learning process by having them propose and test hypotheses through experimentation and/or the collection of observational data…

Cross-Disciplinary Learning

Journal Article | August 2022

We propose cross-disciplinary learning as a construct that can guide instruction and assessment in programs that feature sequential learning across multiple science disciplines. Cross-disciplinary learning combines…

Model of Air Inside a Jar

Lesson Plan | July 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the particle model of matter. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize that air is made up of particles that are widely spaced with…

Teaching Climate Change Through Educational Resources From America’s National Parks

Journal Article | July 2023

Teaching Comprehension in the Digital Age

Journal Article | April 2021

How Slow Is Your Parachute?

Journal Article | July 2021

Working on a Pollution Solution

Journal Article | March 2022

Argumentation to Inform an Engineering Design Decision

Journal Article | July 2022

The Science Symposium

Journal Article | September 2022

There and Back: How a Global Pandemic Shaped Youth Programming

Journal Article | November 2022

Blizzard Warning!

Journal Article | March 2022