Gordon Gauchat is a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Science’s big problem is a loss of influence, not a loss of trust Scientists and researchers who ...

Text and talk in the science classroom constitute two of the primary vehicles by which students gain knowledge and make meaning. Yet, both involve the unique language of science. Presentations focused ...

Building systems that support literacy for science not only within classrooms and schools, but also across schools, communities, districts, and states requires unique strategies and approaches.

1. Demonstrate that scientific knowledge applies across multiple scales of size and/or time. Climate impacts, local vs global. Climate change timescales, long term (geologic timescale) to short term ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The more time you spend on social media, the likelier you are to have come across a viral post that seems too strange to be true. Brief scientific literacy interventions, ...