Windows on the Inquiry Classroom

Journal Article | June 2021

A complete video and documentary record of an inquiry-based nonscience majors’ course has been captured (the “Fire and Ice” Collection). Every moment of 27 class sessions may be observed from several points of view (…

Let's Give Them Something to Talk About

Journal Article | August 2021

Using Publicly Available Long-Term Climate Records in Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Big Data Curriculum

Journal Article | October 2021

Understanding data analysis and interpreting data are key components of teaching interdisciplinary undergraduate students. We detail a semester-long research project that introduces students to long-term data sets,…

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…

Preschoolers’ Science Learning Can Be Joyful—Using a Play-Based, Project Approach

Journal Article | September 2022

A Socially-Just Science Classroom

Journal Article | August 2021

Geologist

Journal Article | November 2022

Conducting Science Labs in a Virtual World

Journal Article | November 2020

The Efficacy of Flipped Laboratory Multiperspective Videos in Skill Acquisition

Journal Article | December 2020

In recent years, video-based lectures have been increasingly used in education as part of flipped classroom approaches, adult education, distance learning, and other applications. Though approaches in video-based…

Linking Formative Assessment Probes to the Explore-Before-Explain Instructional Sequence

Journal Article | May 2023

Grand Canyon

Lesson Plan | July 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the formation of the Grand Canyon. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize the role of rivers and flowing water and connect them to…

Student-driven Stewardship Projects

Journal Article | September 2020

Connecting Learning Through Citizen Science in the Classroom, Community, and Online

Journal Article | June 2020

The Eagle Has Fallen

Journal Article | July 2022

Using a Game to Teach Invasive Species Spread and Management

Journal Article | January 2023

Invasive species are a major ecological and economic problem at the global scale, and education plays a major role in raising awareness and combating these species’ future spread. There are complex management and…