Heather Zimmerman
Assistant Professor in the College of Education
Huck Affiliations
Publication Tags
Learning Science Mobile Computing Experience Life Cycle Museums Interaction Water Biodiversity Artifact Museum Conversation Teacher Proximity Meteorology Learning Process Education Community Augmented Reality Video Fruit Everyday Experience Student Engineering EmotionMost Recent Publications
Using youths’ personal DNA data in science camps: Fostering genetics learning and socio-emotional attitudes toward science with design-based research
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Jennifer L. Weible, Elizabeth A. Wright, Carmen Vanderhoof, Nina G. Jablonski, 2022, Science Education on p. 767-796
Families’ engagement in making activities related to aerospace engineering: designing for parents as learning partners in pop-up makerspaces
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Katharine Ellen Grills, Zachary McKinley, Soo Hyeon Kim, 2022, Information and Learning Science on p. 154-178
Supporting children’s place-based observations and explanations using collaboration scripts while learning-on-the-move outdoors
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Susan M. Land, 2022, International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning on p. 107-134
Shifts of epistemic agency between children and parents during making at museum-based makerspace
Yong Ju Jung, Devon Purington Whalen, Heather Toomey Zimmerman, 2022, International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement
Place-based learning processes in a family science workshop: Discussion prompts supporting families sensemaking and rural science connections using a community water model
Lucy McClain, Yu-Chen Chiu, Heather T. Zimmerman, 2022, Science Education on p. 645-673
Digital badging systems as a set of cultural tools for personalized professional development
Chris Gamrat, Heather Toomey Zimmerman, 2021, AV communication review on p. 2615-2636
The Role of Parents in the Development of YouthsÕ Interest in an Engineering Workshop
Lillyanna Faimon, Heather Zimmerman, 2021,
Collaborative idea exchange and material tinkering influence familiesÕ creative engineering practices and products during engineering programs in informal learning environments
Soo Kim, Heather Zimmerman, 2021, Information and Learning Sciences on p. 585-609
Supporting Observing-on-the-Move with Proximity-Based Technology: Designing for Children’s Scientific Observations Outdoors
Susan Land, Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Christopher Millet, Gi Woong Choi, 2020, Visitor Studies on p. 182-204
Families’ imaginations in a meteorology workshop: Imagining weather through prototyping a weather station
Yu Chen Chiu, Heather Toomey Zimmerman, 2020, on p. 146-153
Most-Cited Papers
Personalized workplace learning: An exploratory study on digital badging within a teacher professional development program
Chris Gamrat, Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Jaclyn Dudek, K Peck, 2014, British Journal of Educational Technology on p. 1136-1148
Socio-technical dimensions of an outdoor mobile learning environment: a three-phase design-based research investigation
Susan M. Land, Heather Toomey Zimmerman, 2015, AV communication review on p. 229-255
Facilitating Place-Based Learning in Outdoor Informal Environments with Mobile Computers
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Susan M. Land, 2014, TechTrends on p. 77-83
Tree Investigators: Supporting families' scientific talk in an arboretum with mobile computers
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Susan M. Land, Lucy R. McClain, Michael R. Mohney, Gi Woong Choi, Fariha H. Salman, 2015, International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement on p. 44-67
Learning in and about rural places: Connections and tensions between students’ everyday experiences and environmental quality issues in their community
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Jennifer L. Weible, 2017, Cultural Studies of Science Education on p. 7-31
Where Young People See Science: Everyday activities connected to science
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Philip Bell, 2014, International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement on p. 25-53
Prior Experiences Shaping Family Science Conversations at a Nature Center
Lucy R. McClain, Heather Zimmerman, 2014, Science Education on p. 1009-1032
A Methodological Case Study with Mobile Eye-Tracking of Child Interaction in a Science Museum
Yong Ju Jung, Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, 2018, TechTrends on p. 509-517
Using augmented reality to support children’s situational interest and science learning during context-sensitive informal mobile learning
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Susan Land, Yong Jung, 2016, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing on p. 101-119
Understanding How Families Use Magnifiers During Nature Center Walks
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Lucy Richardson McClain, Michele Crowl, 2013, Research in Science Education on p. 1917-1938