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  1. Learnscapes for renewable energy education: An exploration of elementary student understanding of solar energy systems

    Article • Interdisciplinary Journal of Environmental and Science Education, March 2023, Modestum Limited

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  2. Developing and Using Multiple Models to Promote Scientific Literacy in the Context of Socio-Scientific Issues

    Article • Science & Education, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  3. Integrating Scientific Modeling and Socio-Scientific Reasoning to Promote Scientific Literacy

    Article • January 2021, IGI Global

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  4. Enacting Co-Designed Socio-Scientific Issues-Based Curriculum Units: A Case of Secondary Science Teacher Learning

    Article • Journal of Science Teacher Education, August 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  5. Exploring primary students causal reasoning about ecosystems

    Article • International Journal of Science Education, June 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  6. Students’ perceptions of socio-scientific issue-based learning and their appropriation of epistemic tools for systems thinking

    Article • International Journal of Science Education, May 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  7. Longitudinal investigation of primary inservice teachers’ modelling the hydrological phenomena

    Article • International Journal of Science Education, December 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  8. Positioning participation in the NGSS era: What counts as success?

    Article • Journal of Research in Science Teaching, November 2019, Wiley

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  9. Assessing the contributions of green building practices to ecological literacy in the elementary classroom: an exploratory study

    Article • Environmental Education Research, September 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  10. (Mis)Alignments in Mentorship: Exploring Challenges to Preservice Science Teacher Preparation

    Article • Journal of Science Teacher Education, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Laura A Zangori, Mandy Biggers

  11. Students’ model-based explanations about natural selection and antibiotic resistance through socio-scientific issues-based learning

    Article • International Journal of Science Education, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  12. Impact of model‐based science curriculum and instruction on elementary students' explanations for the hydrosphere

    Article • Journal of Research in Science Teaching, October 2018, Wiley

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  13. Exploring Elementary Teachers’ Perceptions and Characterizations of Model-Oriented Issue-Based Teaching

    Article • Journal of Science Teacher Education, June 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  14. Using the Practice of Modeling to Support Preservice Teachers’ Reflection on the Process of Teaching and Learning

    Article • Journal of Science Teacher Education, October 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  15. Student development of model-based reasoning about carbon cycling and climate change in a socio-scientific issues unit

    Article • Journal of Research in Science Teaching, June 2017, Wiley

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  16. Supporting 3rd-grade students model-based explanations about groundwater: a quasi-experimental study of a curricular intervention

    Article • International Journal of Science Education, June 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  17. Teaching and Learning about Climate Change

    Article • February 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  18. Developing Practical Knowledge of the Next Generation Science Standards in Elementary Science Teacher Education

    Article • Journal of Science Teacher Education, December 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  19. Supporting upper-level undergraduate students in building a systems perspective in a botany course

    Article • Journal of Biological Education, November 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  20. Development of an Empirically Based Learning Performances Framework for Third-Grade Students’ Model-Based Explanations About Plant Processes

    Article • Science Education, August 2016, Wiley

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  21. Exploring Third-Grade Student Model-Based Explanations about Plant Relationships within an Ecosystem

    Article • International Journal of Science Education, December 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  22. Integrating Life Science Content & Instructional Methods in Elementary Teacher Education

    Article • The American Biology Teacher, November 2015, University of California Press

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  23. Fostering Third-Grade Students’ Use of Scientific Models with the Water Cycle: Elementary teachers’ conceptions and practices

    Article • International Journal of Science Education, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  24. Exploring the Effect of Embedded Scaffolding Within Curricular Tasks on Third-Grade Students’ Model-Based Explanations about Hydrologic Cycling

    Article • Science & Education, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  25. Promoting Prospective Elementary Teachers’ Learning to Use Formative Assessment for Life Science Instruction

    Article • Journal of Science Teacher Education, May 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  26. Empirical validation of integrated learning performances for hydrologic phenomena: 3rd-grade students' model-driven explanation-construction

    Article • Journal of Research in Science Teaching, March 2015, Wiley

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  27. Explanation-Construction in Fourth-Grade Classrooms in Germany and the USA: A cross-national comparative video study

    Article • International Journal of Science Education, June 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  28. Scientific Practices in Elementary Classrooms: Third-Grade Students’ Scientific Explanations for Seed Structure and Function

    Article • Science Education, May 2014, Wiley

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  29. Elementary Teachers' Curriculum Design and Pedagogical Reasoning for Supporting Students' Comparison and Evaluation of Evidence-Based Explanations

    Article • The Elementary School Journal, September 2013, University of Chicago Press

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  30. Fostering student sense making in elementary science learning environments: Elementary teachers' use of science curriculum materials to promote explanation construction

    Article • Journal of Research in Science Teaching, August 2013, Wiley

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  31. Preservice Elementary Teachers and Explanation Construction: Knowledge-for-Practice and Knowledge-in-Practice

    Article • Science Education, February 2013, Wiley

    Dr. Laura A Zangori

  32. A garden study of the effects of ultraviolet-B radiation on pollination success and lifetime female fitness in Brassica

    Article • Oecologia, July 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Laura A Zangori