Responsive Teaching in Online Learning Environments

Journal Article | February 2021

Online teaching and learning have become widespread in higher education over the past two decades, and accelerated during the pandemic. Although online learning is expanding and has many benefits, instructors teaching…

Cultivating Place

Journal Article | March 2021

An Investigation Into the Impact of the Flipped Classroom With Active Learning on the Perception and Performance of Biology Nonmajor Students at the Undergraduate Level

Journal Article | October 2020

We carried out a study of an instructional model that integrates flipped classroom with active learning, in-class activities into our biology course, using a mixed methods research design. According to the survey (n =…

Teaching With Simulations

Journal Article | February 2019

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

Safety Recommendations for Closing Out the School Year

Blog Post | June 2020

Spaceships

Lesson Plan | June 2021

This probe is designed to elicit students’ ideas about changing the direction of motion in the absence of air. Many students will have seen movies or television shows in which spaceships turn by banking or using wing…

From the Field: Events and Opportunities, November 16, 2021

Reports Article | November 2021

The Safety Checklist: Navigating to Safer Waters!

Blog Post | December 2021

Geoscience Education and Motivated Reasoning

Journal Article | July 2020

Individuals use information selectively, in ways that support group beliefs or one’s psychological needs—this is motivated reasoning. Motivated reasoning is revealed in correlations between (1) opinions/…

What Lies Beneath?

Journal Article | January 2023

Engaging With VR

Journal Article | August 2020

Extending Engineering Learning Beyond Field Trips

Journal Article | September 2020

Wonder-Full Thinking

Journal Article | March 2022

Where Do You Find Earth’s Plates?

Lesson Plan | July 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about Earth’s plates. The probe is designed to find out where students think tectonic plates are located.

STEM Graduate Students’ Development at the Intersection of Research, Leadership, and Innovation

Journal Article | November 2022

Researcher innovation and leadership skills are fundamental for creating implementable solutions to pressing societal and market-based global problems. The Research to Innovation to Society (R2I2S) program is a…