Michigan Teachers Exploring Nature: Thinking Beyond Four Walls
Congratulations to Dr. Cory Miller and Ms. Kara Haas for being selected to receive $50,000 seed funding to develop an outdoor science instructional program.
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Ava Gjokaj wins education award at th 2025 University Undergraduate Research & Arts Forum
Congratulations to Ava Gjokaj, a student research assistant in the CREATE for STEM Institute, for winning the Education award (Section 3) at the 2025 UURAF forum!
The Role of Habitus, Structure, and Agency in the Implementation of Science Reform Practices
Hildah Kwamboka Makori, Consuelo Juliette Morales, and Irene S. Bayer published in April 2025 issue of Science Education
PRIME research partnership awarded prestigious Community-Engaged Teaching designation
The Michigan State University Distinguished Partnership Award for Community-Engaged Teaching recognizes individuals who demonstrate an outstanding commitment to fostering meaningful relationships between the university and the local community.
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Engineering Graduate Research Symposium, May 8, 2025
The Engineering Graduate Research Symposium is an annual event showcasing the work of graduate students from across all college unit
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CREATE at AERA 2025 in Denver, CO
It's time for the AERA Annual Conference 2025! This year, there are more than 2,500 sessions to choose from. We hope to see you at a CREATE presentation.
CREATE SEED grant funds outdoor science instruction project
Congratulations to Dr. Cory Miller and team (Kara Haas, Ben Botwinski and Jillian Osbourne-Hawkins)! The group was awarded a $50,000 grant through CREATE for STEM to develop a program that helps assess the impact of increased observation and practicing of place-based, outdoor science instruction on preservice teachers' science identity.
College of Natural Science embraces generative AI tools
Generative artificial intelligence is changing how faculty in the College of Natural Science are teaching. Professor Melanie Cooper is developing her own AI-powered chatbot to give students instant, detailed feedback on homework—and eventually, on exams
$10M Grant Awarded to Advance Science Education in Rural South
Using the award-winning Multiple Literacies in Project-Based Learning (ML-PBL) curriculum as a starting point, the newly developed Collaborate Science (ColSci) curriculum will focus on 4th grade students and is designed to promote the teaching and learning of science and literacy in the rural south.
Kara Haas
Research Assistant, Michigan Teachers Exploring Nature (MiTEN) Program
Kara L. Haas is an educator, researcher, and doctoral student in curriculum, instruction (CITE) and science education at MSU. She is the K-12 partnership coordinator for the KBS Long-Term Ecological Research program, an NSF-funded broader impacts program that brings K-12 teachers and scientists together to improve environmental literacy. She has a B.S. in biology from Hope College and a master’s in the practice of teaching: early childhood education from Western Michigan University.
