Changing Constellations

Lesson Plan | July 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about why the constellations change with the seasons. The probe is designed to find out how students use the Earth’s spin and orbit to explain why…

Why is the Earth round?

Journal Article | May 2020

Get Ready for the 2023-24 Solar Eclipse 'Double-Header'

Blog Post | August 2023

Rainbow to Grow

Journal Article | July 2022

Energy in Its Many Forms

Journal Article | January 2023

It Takes a Village

Journal Article | May 2023

Small-Group Work in the Online Science Classroom

Journal Article | February 2021

My Robot Can Fly!

Journal Article | April 2021

A Focus on Function

Journal Article | September 2019

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching.

Interdisciplinary Lessons on Energy and Entropy

Journal Article | May 2022

This article presents ideas and narratives of an experiment on the concept of energy developed for an honors seminar on energy and a mechanics course. We argue that energy is an idea best taught in an interdisciplinary…

Modeling, Reading, and Talking, Oh My!

Journal Article | July 2022

Mystery Critters

Journal Article | September 2022

Assessing Preservice Teachers’ Experience With Wind Energy Education Through a Cooperative Learning Experience

Journal Article | January 2021

The purpose of this study was to investigate knowledge and attitudes of preservice teachers toward wind energy education. The participants for this study were preservice teachers enrolled in a science methods for…

Practice Makes Better

Journal Article | January 2021

Practice effects are ubiquitous human phenomena that have been scientifically studied for over half a century. They are also among the most directly applicable psychological phenomenon, holding broad implications for…

Empowering Salieri

Journal Article | November 2021