Audrey Mohan
Never Doubt That a Small Group of Thoughtful, Committed Citizens Can Change the World; Indeed, It's the Only Thing That Ever Has.
~Margaret Mead
Bio
Senior Research Scientist; Director of Editorial and Production
Audrey Mohan joined BSCS in 2012. Her expertise is in instructional materials design, evaluation, and curriculum-based professional development. She also has expertise in mapping scientific and environmental data using cloud-based GIS.
Audrey’s current work focuses on designing instructional materials to support NGSS in K-12 classrooms. She works to elevate students’ natural curiosities, innate ability to question and wonder about the world, and desire for collaboration, so that their science classroom is a place of exploration and community-based learning. She is the former Associate Director of the OpenSciEd Middle School Developer’s Consortium – a project that has created Open Education Resources for middle school classrooms and also led BSCS teams on the development of OpenSciEd elementary (openscied.org). Audrey works on a variety of environmental and Earth science-focused projects, including green architecture, climate change, localization, and citizen science data collection and inquiry.
Audrey has a BA in History from the University of Notre Dame, an MEd in Special Education from University of Texas-Austin, and a PhD in Geography – Geography Education from Texas State University – San Marcos. Her dissertation focused on teacher efficacy and teacher professional learning in geography.
Beyond BSCS, Audrey enjoys spending time with her family in the outdoors or traveling, working in the garden, or reading a good book.
Selected Publications
Zangori, L., Mohan, A., Cole, L., H. Young, J. Aman, & J.B. Kim. (accepted). “We spent a lot of time not in my classroom”: Using Rural School Buildings to Teach Place-Based Energy Efficiency. The Science Teacher.
Mohan, A., Mohan, L., Granados, E., Harris, E., Guy-Gaytán, C. (2025). Sparking Curiosity, Inspiring Action: An Innovative Approach to Climate Education. The Science Teacher.
Mohan, A., Mohan, L., & Jamshidi, A. (2025). “How Does It Not Fall Over?”: Forces and motion in art. Science and Children, 62(6), 50–59. https://doi.org/10.1080/00368148.2025.2553374
Strode, P. K., Mead, L. S., Stuhlsatz, M., Kjelvik, M. K., Schultheis, E. H., Warwick, A. R., Mohan, A., Morris, J.A., & Mayes, R. (2025). Quantitative reasoning in the context of science phenomena. The American Biology Teacher, 87(6), 308-312.
Mohan, A., Mills, W., & Mohan, L. (2023). A multidisciplinary approach to teaching climate change. The Geography Teacher, 20(3), 127-131.
Bednarz, S., Chalkley, B., Fletcher, S., Hay, I., Le Heron, E., Mohan, A., & Trafford, J. (2008).Community engagement for student learning in geography. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 32(1), 87-100.
OpenSciEd Middle & Elementary Science. openscied.org.
Invitations to Inquiry with Fieldscope (2022). https://bscs.org/resources/invitations-to-inquiry/.
BSCS. (2017). Guidelines for the evaluation of instructional materials in science. Colorado Springs: Author.