No Bones About It

Journal Article | August 2021

Vibrating Insects

Journal Article | February 2021

Pinning and Planning

Journal Article | January 2021

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

Journal Article | July 2022

Using Understanding by Design to Make the Standards Come Alive

Journal Article | October 2021

Magnets in Water

Journal Article | October 2018

Habitat Change

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about adaptation. The probe is designed to reveal whether students think individuals intentionally change their physical characteristics or behaviors in…

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…

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…

Standards Are Not Curriculum

Journal Article | September 2020

Developing the Next Generation of Elementary Science Teachers

Journal Article | December 2020

National science education documents emphasize new learning outcomes of elementary students; therefore, the preparation of elementary teachers should be revised to meet these challenges. This article describes how…