The materials linked below are designed for a one-quarter middle school astronomy module. The materials I've created for a semester-long...

I'm interested in curating a series of hands-on desktop activities that allow students to develop physical intuition for physics...

Clamps! You can never have too many, and a great table clamp is indispensable when setting up labs in the physics classroom. But table...

A number of Modelers have been asked to remove resources from their websites (including me) as this violates AMTA's fair use policy, and...

I was interviewed for the August 2020 Science Modeling Talks podcast. Click the image below and have a listen. In this episode, Mark...

In 1998, when I participated in the Modeling workshops at the University of California at Davis, (the Aggies) our group created a t-shirt...

One of the criticisms I hear of Modeling Instruction and other student-centered, inquiry-based teaching approaches is that they’re “slow”...

Teaching chemistry from a Modeling perspective was a fantastic experience for me. I particularly loved how seamlessly chemistry and...

For fourteen years, I worked with incomparable colleagues Hazel Jensen, Jerry Taylor, Bill Brinkhorst, and Jim Roble to develop a robust...

Through a fantastic collaboration between STEMteachersNYC and New Visions for Public Schools, I have the great privilege to work with...

Even if you're sold on standards-based grading, the transition can be daunting. Here is a roadmap for sequentially implementing key...

The best advice for implementing SBG is to keep it simple. A complex system can do more harm than good if it mires you in paperwork and...

Well-written learning objectives make expectations clear to students, bring focus to instructional time, encompass the external...

Once you have created your learning objectives and determined assessment questions that address those objectives, you next need to choose...

For the 9th graders I'm now teaching, I wanted them to have some more tangible extra practice before taking an extra quiz in my...

Using Standards-Based Grading to Assess Labs I don’t like grading lab reports, and I especially don’t like grading them when I get the...

This apparatus is a low-cost wave-driver and amplifier driven by a free smartphone app for investigating wave propagation in strings. ...

I first encountered Wayne Garver's low-cost LED photoelectric effect apparatus at a St. Louis Area Physics Teachers workshop in 2005....

To help students develop a kinesthetic sense of accelerated motion, it is ideal for them to investigate the acceleration of an object...

I start the year in 9th grade physics with a series of short lab investigations emphasizing lab techniques. Developing student fluency in...