CURIOSITY IN ACTION

This is based on a presentation that I gave at the Wisconsin Society of Science Teacher’s Annual Conference in March 2017. Introduction What is your experien...

Introductory physics courses are notoriously filled with a tremendous amount of content, presented in a way that makes sense to physicists, but not to novice...

If you ever find yourself with a group of other science professors, sooner or later the textbook question comes up. Usually the question is “which one do you...

A topic that comes up again and again among my friends and colleagues is the homework question. How much to assign? How frequently to assign? What kind of pr...

I have been asked many times to share my teaching philosophy with friends or students who are applying for teaching jobs. I hope that this will serve as an e...

How do scientists go about learning more about the natural world? Many college science professors are actively engaged in the process of creating new scienti...

“Are you going to make us memorize proofs* for the exam?” A student of mine asked me this dreaded question during the first week of class. His partner replie...

We can learn a lot about teaching and learning by going outside of our discipline. Those of us who end up as science teachers were the ones who found science...