Phenomenon-Based Professional Development

Journal Article | March 2021

Why Are There Coral in the Cliffs?

Journal Article | January 2021

Fostering Cultural Community Wealth

Journal Article | March 2023

Shining Light on the Importance of Explore-Before-Explain Experiences for Early Childhood Learners

Journal Article | January 2022

Growing With Phenomenon

Journal Article | May 2022

Learning the Temperature Dependency of Matter by Making Ice Cream

Journal Article | August 2021

How Plants Gain Weight

Journal Article | September 2022

Rainfall, River Height, and Local Relevance

Journal Article | May 2023

What’s the Buzz?

Journal Article | April 2021

Immerse Elementary Students in Light Explorations

Journal Article | October 2021

Archive: Transforming Science Learning: Keeping Phenomena at the Center of Science, May 4, 2022

Web Seminar | May 2022

Take a peek behind the curtain of creating the NSTA Daily Do lesson plans driven by phenomena to engage all learners. Walk away with a rubric to guide your own lesson design. As a participant of this web seminar you…

How Does Sound Travel in a String?

Journal Article | October 2023

In Chinese science curriculum, the sound unit generally starts with observing various sound making phenomena and finding out that they all involve vibration. (In China, the elementary science curriculum standards assign…

Puddles to Floods: Field-based Investigations on Flooding in New Orleans

Journal Article | December 2024

All students deserve access to field-based learning experiences where they can conduct investigations and collect data to answer their questions about the world. These opportunities are particularly important in the…

Local Phenomena

Blog Post | August 2020