Growing up near the World Bank’s agricultural development project in Anyigba (present day Kogi State, Nigeria), Mark Akubo and his friends would visit the aerodrome to watch light planes take off and ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- A University at Buffalo professor who specializes in science education will bring his message of technology and student engagement to the nation's largest group of science educators ...

Science education is increasingly expected to reach every learner, yet many students still face barriers that limit their participation and engagement.

Teachers must be able to combine several important kinds of knowledge in order to successfully implement classroom science instruction for concept learning. These include knowledge of science content, ...

After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to ...

"Squat! Squat! Squat! Higher! Faster!" In the basement of the Duane Physics and Astrophysics building at the University of Colorado Boulder, a science demonstration is going on, but it looks more like ...

The Secondary Science Education major at the University of Delaware offers students interested in teaching middle or high school science the opportunity to study their scientific area of interest ...

For generations, teaching physics has been more about manipulating math problems than learning the basic principles that guide the discipline. That’s precisely why, according to a growing body of ...

We are a community of researchers who are advancing our understanding of teaching and learning physics to improve the quality and accessibility of physics education for all students. The Physics ...