The Lamat Institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is a cohort-based research program designed to advance ...

Educators need evidence drawn from research to help them implement and justify inquiry-based approaches to teaching and learning science. Many science teachers, for example, question why they should ...

In the quest for knowledge, science often prides itself on objectivity and empirical evidence. It is often contrasted with lived experience, which is defined as innately subjective and clearly in ...

Public trust in science has eroded in part because of a growing perception that researchers selectively present data to fit predetermined agendas. The scientific method, at its core, is designed to ...

Middle-grades science teachers that dedicate a minimum of five hours of instructional time to science each week are more likely to implement inquiry-based teaching, a best practice among science and ...

pt. 1. The UFO phenomenon. The laughter of science -- The UFO experienced -- The UFO reported -- On the strangeness of UFO reports -- pt. 2. The data and the problem. Nocturnal lights -- UFOs seen in ...

Author Jane Carlson-Pickering brings together poetry, curiosity, and scientific thinking in her hardcover children’s book, The Berry Monster: A Science Inquiry Poem for Children. With lively rhymes ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science. (1998). Blueprints for Science Literacy. New York: Oxford University Press. American Association for the Advancement of Science. (1989). Science ...