Justice-Oriented Science Resources by Megan Kuehl

Redlining and Exposure to Urban Heat Islands Map (Science Museum of Virginia)

megankuehl — 2023-01-06 17:12:28 UTC

A map that explores the relationship between environmental factors (eg., average temperature and percentage of impervious surfaces) and sociopolitical factors (eg., historical redlining grade)

Starting the Conversation: 4 Equity On-ramps for the Science Classroom

megankuehl — 2023-01-06 17:15:40 UTC

Blog post describing 4 types of inequities found in science and how to engage with these in the science classroom

STEM Teaching Tools: Equity Practice Briefs

megankuehl — 2023-01-06 17:35:36 UTC

A collection of short articles (~5-minute reads) from expert teachers and education researchers describing equity-related teaching practices

Stick to the Science: When Science gets Political (Nature)

megankuehl — 2023-01-06 17:35:54 UTC

Series of three 30-minute podcasts from Nature describing how science and politics interact

EJScreen (EPA)

megankuehl — 2023-01-06 17:38:37 UTC

An interactive environmental justice database from the Environmental Protection Agency

Redlining and Exposure to Urban Heat Islands (Science Museum of Virginia)

megankuehl — 2023-01-06 17:39:02 UTC

A map that explores the relationship between environmental factors (eg., average temperature and percentage of impervious surfaces) and sociopolitical factors (eg., historical redlining grade)

The Joy Report (Intersectional Environmentalist)

megankuehl — 2023-01-06 17:43:54 UTC

Podcast and series of stories about positive, equitable actions toward climate solutions and environmental justice

It's Hot Out Here: Teachers Guide (NWEA®)

megankuehl — 2023-01-09 15:45:30 UTC

Teachers guide for "It's Hot Out Here: Exploring Heat in Our World," a grades 6–8 science unit examining the relationship between heat impacts of climate change and the historical practice of redlining

It's Hot Out Here: Student Guide (NWEA®)

megankuehl — 2023-01-09 15:46:12 UTC

Student guide for "It's Hot Out Here: Exploring Heat in Our World," a grades 6–8 science unit examining the relationship between heat impacts of climate change and the historical practice of redlining

(W)holistic Science Pedagogy (NSTA)

megankuehl — 2023-01-17 19:29:54 UTC

An article (~10-minute read) that describes a general framework for addressing justice in science classrooms along with a specific lesson plan around climate change

Social Justice Standards (Learning for Justice)

megankuehl — 2023-01-26 18:42:47 UTC

A set of K–12 standards for anti-bias education in any content area; useful as a way to support justice-oriented practices

Inequitable Impacts of COVID-19 (NSTA)

megankuehl — 2023-02-15 20:29:31 UTC

Part of a series of lessons evaluating how COVID-19 affects different groups of people

Evaluating Science-Based Claims (News Literacy Project)

megankuehl — 2023-02-16 15:51:07 UTC

60-minute lesson on how to evaluate the credibility of science-based claims in the media

Making Sense of Data (News Literacy Project)

megankuehl — 2023-02-16 15:55:37 UTC

60-minute lesson on how to evaluate charts, graphs, and other forms of data present in the media

CODAP: A Free Web-Based Student-Centered Tool for Analyzing Data Sets (Concord)

megankuehl — 2023-02-20 20:04:20 UTC

A program (with a learning curve) that could be used throughout the year as a way for students to investigate trends in any data set

Racial Bias in Pulse Oximeters (NPR)

megankuehl — 2023-02-22 15:26:23 UTC

Short, 14-minute podcast describing how pulse oximeters (a tool used to determine the level of care needed by COVID patients) are not as effective for people of color and what is being done about it

Assigning a Dollar Value to Lives Lost Due to Climate Change Impacts (NPR)

megankuehl — 2023-02-22 15:30:01 UTC

Article describing how the EPA calculates the cost of lives lost due to climate change differently depending on the income of the country in which the people lived

Urban Pollution Impacts Immunity (Science News Explores)

megankuehl — 2023-02-23 18:01:57 UTC

Article written for students that explains research about how urban pollution causes epigenetic change in people

Justice-Centered Pedagogy: A Catalyst

megankuehl — 2023-02-23 18:12:00 UTC

An article (~10-minute read) from Daniel Morales-Doyle that describes a justice-oriented science unit and how students responded in an advanced chemistry class in an urban neighborhood

Community Ethnography (NSTA)

megankuehl — 2023-02-23 18:13:39 UTC

An article (~10-minute read) with a few high-impact teaching strategies to better connect science and engineering to student lives

Race-Based Norms for Concussion Settlements (NPR)

megankuehl — 2023-02-24 13:37:47 UTC

Article about the settlement for the NFL's prior policy that used a lower baseline for intelligence for Black players, making it more difficult for them to show cogntive decline from head injuries

Urban Heat Islands Story Map (NASA)

megankuehl — 2023-03-01 15:35:18 UTC

Series of data interactions and activties exploring the phenomenon of urban heat islands

Science in the City Website (Bryan A. Brown)

megankuehl — 2023-03-01 15:42:43 UTC

Collection of resources curated by Dr. Bryan Brown and Stanford University, includes emerging research around justice-oriented practices, lesson plans, and community chats

Bringing Justice to the Science Classroom Workshop Slides

megankuehl — 2023-03-01 21:00:17 UTC

Slides from the workshop presentation

Bringing Justice to the Science Classroom Workbook

megankuehl — 2023-03-01 21:01:42 UTC

Participant workbook for the workshop session

Let's Talk (Learning for Justice)

megankuehl — 2023-03-02 17:06:15 UTC

A guide to engaging in difficult conversations about inequity with students

Ambitious Science Teaching Website

megankuehl — 2023-03-02 17:10:18 UTC

A website that includes videos, teaching strategies, lesson plans, and other resources; note that this site will be updated in the future to focus more specifically on justice-oriented teaching

NGSS Macroscope

megankuehl — 2023-03-27 13:06:17 UTC

A collection of social justice science phenomenon

Tackling Inequities in Emerging Technologies (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine)

megankuehl — 2023-05-09 01:32:34 UTC

An article describing key points of a recent webinar from the National Academies discussing inequities in fileds like biotechnology

Tech Increases Equity in Diabetes Care for Kids (Stanford News)

megankuehl — 2023-05-11 21:14:11 UTC

An article describing the impact of how access to tech like continuous glucose monitoring affects health for youth with Diabetes

Comparison of specimens and field observations reveals biases in biodiversity data (Stanford News)

megankuehl — 2023-05-11 21:21:27 UTC

An article describing the impact of sampling bias on the validity of biodiversity data and a good introduction to sampling bias in data about non-humans

Wildfire Risk and Income (Stanford News)

megankuehl — 2023-08-31 17:23:23 UTC

An article describing a study of the relationship between average income in a community and its wildfire risk as a result of the personal cost of making power lines safer.

Women and Heart Procedures (NY Times)

megankuehl — 2024-02-01 21:24:35 UTC

Article describing how heart problems (and their treatments) have mostly been studied in men. Women are more often misdiagnosed and carry greater risks from treatment because of this lack of representation in research.

Article on the misdiagnosis: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/09/well/live/heart-disease-symptoms-women.html

What Medicine Gets Wrong About Race (Freakonomics MD)

megankuehl — 2024-02-22 14:03:02 UTC

A 33-minute podcast describing some diagnostics tests (like pulse oximeters) that are less accurate for Black patients, therefore impacting their recommended treatments

More Welcoming Science Classroom (Continuing Educator)

megankuehl — 2024-02-26 22:07:52 UTC

41-minute podcast discussing how to make science classrooms more equitable and inclusive

Whose Bodies Get Studied (Culture Study)

megankuehl — 2024-03-01 14:00:12 UTC

Blog post about how and why women have been excluded from sports science research, along with some ways to identify how inclusive a study is. Also an opportunity to discuss how to responsibly use blogs as a source of information. Note that this article focuses on women and includes specific examples related to female physiology and anatomy- may not be appropriate for direct use in a classroom but provides many relevant examples.

Bias in AI-based models for medical applications: challenges and mitigation strategies (Nature)

megankuehl — 2024-08-19 20:18:54 UTC

An open access journal article about how AI in medical applications like surgery systems can disproportionately cause less favorable impacts on marginalized communities by using biased data sets

Health barriers for girls and women in sport (UK Women and Equalities Committee Report)

megankuehl — 2025-01-16 15:51:53 UTC

A report from a committee of the UK House of Commons documenting inequities in women's athletics, including a specific section on how inequity in soccer cleat design results in increased ACL injuries for women compared to men.

Screening Bias: Breaking Down Barriers for Women in STEM on TV (SXSW Edu 2025)

megankuehl — 2025-03-19 13:45:47 UTC

60-minute keynote presentation by Emily Calandrelli (Emily's Wonder Lab) from SXSW Edu 2025 on bias in STEM media

Misuse of Children's Genetic Data for Race Science

megankuehl — 2026-01-24 13:54:15 UTC

Article behind a paywall

Article that discusses the misuse of a large database of brain scans from children in studies that seek to claim intellectual superiority of white people. From the article, "The researchers have used it to produce at least 16 papers purporting to find biological evidence for differences in intelligence between races, ranking ethnicities by I.Q. scores and suggesting Black people earn less because they are not very smart...Mainstream geneticists have rejected their work as biased and unscientific. Yet by relying on genetic and other personal data from the prominent project, known as the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, the researchers gave their theories an air of analytical rigor."