LYNNE ZUMMO portrait
  • Curator of Learning Sciences, Natural History Museum of Utah
  • Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology

Publications

  • Bene, E.P.*, Gargroetzi, E.C., Zummo, L.M., & Aguilar, A.R.* (2023). “A Deep Reckoning”: Re/Mixing Literacies and Imaginative Rupture in “Let’s Talk About Election 2020”. In A. Garcia & N. Mirra (Eds.), Speculative Pedagogies: Designing Equitable Educational Futures (pp. 35-50). Published, 10/27/2023.
    https://www.tcpress.com/speculative-pedagogies-978...
  • Zummo L.M. & Gargroetzi, E.C., Hadzic, L.M. (2023). Theorizing science-civic practices: Youth adaptation and remixing of scientific numeracies within digital civic media. Science Education. Vol. 107, 1593-1627. Published, 08/21/2023.
    https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezproxy.lib.utah.e...
  • Aguilar, A.R. & Gargroetzi, E.C., Zummo, L.M., Bene, E.P. (2023). Exploring set theoretic practices of youth engagement in connective journalism: What we lose in school-mathematical descriptions. Journal of Humanistic Mathematics. Vol. 13, 176-198. Published, 07/01/2023.
    https://scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol13/iss2/1...
  • Zummo L.M. (2023). Climate change and the social world: Discourse analysis of students’ intuitive understandings. Science & Education. 1-20. Published, 01/06/2023.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-022-00416-1
  • Zummo L.M. (2022). Disagreement as context for science-civic learning: An analysis of discursive resources brought to bear by high school science students. Cultural Studies of Science Education. Vol. 17, 1115–1139. Published, 11/24/2022.
  • Zummo L.M. & Massey, E. (2022). Using Synthetic Knowledge and Interaction Analysis to Investigate Learning in a Collaborative Digital Climate Learning Experience,. (pp. 393-400). Vol. 2022. International Society of the Learning Sciences Conference Proceedings. Published, 06/01/2022.
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/ws5sdcfi72aykj1/ICLS2022...
  • Dobie, T., Zummo, L.M., Barth-Cohen, L., Dias, L. & Warner, C. (2022). Case-based Scenarios for Supporting Equitable Mathematics and Science Instruction: Articulating Design Conjectures and Emerging Tensions. (pp. 1457-1460). Vol. 2022. International Society of the Learning Sciences Conference Proceedings. Published, 06/01/2022.
    https://www.dropbox.com/s/ws5sdcfi72aykj1/ICLS2022...
  • Zummo L.M., Hauser, M.D. & Carlson, J. (2021). Science Teacher Noticing via Video Annotation: Links between Complexity and Knowledge-Based Reasoning. Journal of Science Teacher Education. Vol. 33, 744-763. Published, 10/28/2021.
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/104656...
  • Zummo L.M. & Dozier, S.J. (2021). Using epistemic instructional activities to support secondary science teachers’ social construction of knowledge of anthropogenic climate change during a professional learning experience. Journal of Geoscience Education. Vol. 70, 530-545. Published, 10/13/2021.
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/108999...
  • Zummo L.M., Gargroetzi, E.C. & Garcia, A. (2021). How youth use scientific argumentation in civic participation on climate change: polar bears, the Great Barrier Reef, and ‘your job as president’. International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement. Vol. 11, 362-377. Published, 10/02/2021.
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/215484...
  • Zummo L., Donovan B. & Busch K.C. (2021). Complex influences of mechanistic knowledge, worldview, and quantitative reasoning on climate change discourse: Evidence for ideologically motivated reasoning among youth. (pp. 95-127). Vol. 58, Journal of Research in Science Teaching. Published, 01/01/2021.
  • Zummo L., Gargroetzi E. & Garcia A. (2020). Youth voice on climate change: using factor analysis to understand the intersection of science, politics, and emotion. (pp. 1207-1226). Vol. 26, Environmental Education Research. Published, 08/02/2020.
  • Lemmi, C. , Brown, B.A., Wild, A., Zummo, L.M. & Sedlacek, Q. (2019). Language Ideologies in Science Education. Science Education. Vol. 103, 854-874. Published, 07/01/2019.
    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/sc...
  • Zummo L.M. & Friedland, A.J. (2011). Soil carbon release along a gradient of physical disturbance in a harvested northern hardwood forest. Forest Ecology & Management. Vol. 261. Published, 03/15/2011.

Research Keywords

  • science teacher education
  • climate change education
  • Science Education
  • Museums
  • Learning Sciences
  • Climate Change
  • Civic Education

Presentations

  • Towards a Better Climate Future: Museum Exhibits for Shared Engagement and Learning, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/13/2023.
  • Zummo, L., Thompson, L., Clifford, C., and Davis, C. (2023). Developing climate exhibits for shared engagement and learning: Emergent design conjectures for museums. SIG-3 (Informal Science Learning) Invited Symposium Presentation: Showcasing Research in Out-of-School Science Learning by Junior Scholars. European Science Education Research Association (ESERA), Cappadocia, Turkey. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 09/01/2023.
  • Barth-Cohen, L., Zummo, L., Braden, S., Adams, A.*, and Godsey, H. (2023). Sense-Making About Geologic Features That Are Spatially Adjacent and Chronologically Distant. Paper Presentation. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 04/16/2023.
  • Zummo, L., Thompson, L., Clifford, C., and Davis, C. (2023). Leveraging Side Doors and Humor to Connect Diverse Informal Learners to Climate Change. Paper Presentation. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 04/16/2023.
  • Dias, L.*, Barth-Cohen, L., Zummo, L., Dobie, T., and Warner, C. (2023). Preservice Teacher Thinking About Equity-Oriented Teaching Practices in Math and Science Using Case Prompts. Paper Presentation. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 04/13/2023.
  • Gargroetzi, E., Zummo, L., Aguilar, A.*, and Bene, E.* (2023). Framing Mathematics in Sociopolitical Public Discourse. Symposium. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 04/13/2023.
  • Zummo, L., Barth-Cohen, L., Godsey, H., Burbank, M., and Cook, A. (2023). Using social and environmental justice issues as anchoring phenomena in an innovative science teaching methods course. Association for Science Teacher Educators (ASTE) Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT. January 14, 2023. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 01/14/2023.
  • Zummo, L., Barth-Cohen, L., Godsey, H., Burbank, M., and Cook, A. (2023). Using social and environmental justice issues as anchoring phenomena in an innovative science teaching methods course. Association for Science Teacher Educators (ASTE) Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, UT. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 01/14/2023.
  • Dias, L., Barth-Cohen, L., Zummo, L., Dobie, T., and Warner, C. (2023). Preservice Teacher Thinking About Equity-Oriented Teaching Practices in Math and Science Using Case Prompts. Paper Presentation. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL. April 13, 2023. Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 11/10/2022.
  • Barth-Cohen, L., Zummo, L., Braden, S., Adams, A., and Godsey, H. (2023). Sense-Making About Geologic Features That Are Spatially Adjacent and Chronologically Distant. Paper Presentation. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL. April 16, 2023. Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 11/10/2022.
  • Zummo, L., Thompson, L., Clifford, C., and Davis, C. (2023). Leveraging Side Doors and Humor to Connect Diverse Informal Learners to Climate Change. Paper Presentation. American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, IL. April 16, 2023. Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 11/10/2022.
  • Zummo, L.M. & Larson, M. (2022). Digitized Collections as a Means to Deepen Informal Science Learning: An Argument and Early Findings, Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, June 7, 2022. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 06/07/2022.
  • Zummo, L.M. & Gargroetzi, E.C. (2022). Remixing the Past and Present: Scientific Civic Literacies to Articulate New Futures in Youth-Produced Media, American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, CA, April 24, 2022. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 04/24/2022.
  • Bene, E., Gargroetzi, E.C., & Zummo, L.M. (2022). Re/mixing Literacies to Dream Possible Futures: Imaginative Rupture in "Let's Talk About Election 2020", American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, CA, April 22, 2022. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 04/22/2022.
  • Zummo, L.M. & Gargroetzi, E.C. (2022). Theorizing science-civic practices: Youth adaptation and remixing of science practices within digital civic participation, National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Vancouver, Canada, March 30, 2022. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/30/2022.
  • Zummo, L.M. (2022). Decisions for Our Future: Learning through Collaborative Civic Decision-Making in a Digital Climate Simulation. National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Vancouver, Canada, March 29, 2022. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/29/2022.
  • Confronting the politics of a changing climate in the science classroom, Royal Geographic Society, London, England, UK, November 18, 2021. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/18/2021.
  • Gargroetzi, E.C., Zummo, L.M., Aguilar, A.*, Bene, E.*, Garcia, A., Cantu, E.* “Let’s Talk About Election 2020”: Quantitative Reasoning and Youth Civic Composing in an Online Network, 43rd Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA 43), Philadelphia, PA, October 14-17, 2021. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/15/2021.
  • Gargroetzi, E.C., Zummo, L.M. (2021). “Let’s Talk About Election 2020”: Quantitative Civic Literacies of Solidarity and Critique in an Online Digital Network, International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) Annual Meeting, Virtual conference, June 9, 2021. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 06/09/2021.
  • Zummo, L.M. (2021). Locating the Scientific in the Political and the Political in the Scientific: Examining Ideological Practice in Science Class, International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) Annual Meeting, Virtual conference, June 9, 2021. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 06/09/2021.
  • Zummo, L.M., Hauser, M.D., Carlson, J. (2021). STEM Teacher Noticing via Video Annotation: Links between Complexity and Knowledge-Based Reasoning, American Educational Research Association (AERA), Virtual conference, April 9-12, 2021. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 04/12/2021.
  • Aiello, L.T., Zummo, L.M., Moriarty, T.W., Carlson, J.C. (2021). Enacted professional learning in context: Case studies of PLE participants’ return to school sites, American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Virtual conference, April 9-12, 2021. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 04/11/2021.
  • Zummo, L.M., Gargroetzi, E.C. (2021). Youth civic participation: Using scientific argumentation to make one’s voice heard on climate change, American Educational Research Association (AERA), Virtual conference, April 9-12, 2021. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 04/10/2021.
  • Zummo, L.M. (2021). Ideological Practice in Science Learning: Navigating Complex Terrain of Climate and Politics in US Classrooms, National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Virtual conference, April 7-11, 2021. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 04/09/2021.
  • Zummo, L.M., Dozier, S. (2021). Using epistemic tools to support teacher PCK of controversial socio-scientific issues. Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE) Annual Conference, Virtual conference, January 14-15, 2021. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 01/14/2021.
  • Zummo, L.M. (2020). Locating Science in Politics: New Approaches to Climate Change Education. North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) Research Symposium, Virtual conference, October 10, 2020. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/10/2020.

Grants, Contracts & Research Gifts

  • Developing and Implementing Case-Based Scenarios to Support Elementary Pre-service Teachers’ Enactment of Equitable Mathematics and Science Instruction. PI: Tracy Dobie. Co-PI(s): Lauren Barth-Cohen, Connor Warner. National Science Foundation, 01/01/2023 - 12/31/2025. Total project budget to date: $599,971.00
  • Learning to Observe: Unpacking Teachers’ Development of Expertise in Scientific Observation. PI: Lauren Barth-Cohen. Co-PI(s): Holly Godsey. National Science Foundation, 09/01/2022 - 08/31/2025. Total project budget to date: $599,599.00