Heather Zimmerman
Assistant Professor in the College of Education
Huck Affiliations
Publication Tags
Learning Science Life Cycle Mobile Computing Experience Community Education Interaction Student Biodiversity Biology Decision Making Artifact Everyday Experience Proximity Environmental Quality Participation Museums Conversation Resources Water Quality Fruit School Video NatureMost Recent Papers
Supporting Observing-on-the-Move with Proximity-Based Technology: Designing for Children’s Scientific Observations Outdoors
Susan M. Land, Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Chris Millet, Gi Woong Choi, 2020, Visitor Studies on p. 182-204
Supporting children’s outdoor science learning with mobile computers
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Susan M. Land, Chrystal Maggiore, Chris Millet, 2019, Learning, Media and Technology on p. 457-472
Emerging and developing situational interest during children's tablet-mediated biology learning activities at a nature center
Yong Ju Jung, Heather Zimmerman, Susan Mary Land, 2019, Science Education on p. 900-922
Family connections to local science issues: How scientists use questions to engage families in personally-relevant learning during science-themed workshops
Lucy R. McClain, Heather Zimmerman, 2019, International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement on p. 154-170
Investigating children's deep learning of the tree life cycle using mobile technologies
Gi Woong Choi, Susan Mary Land, Heather Zimmerman, 2018, Computers in Human Behavior on p. 470-479
A Methodological Case Study with Mobile Eye-Tracking of Child Interaction in a Science Museum
Yong Ju Jung, Heather Zimmerman, Koraly Elisa Perez-Edgar, 2018, TechTrends on p. 509-517
Epistemic agency in an environmental sciences watershed investigation fostered by digital photography
Heather Zimmerman, Jennifer L. Weible, 2018, International Journal of Science Education on p. 1-25
Using a design thinking model to create learning tools: A case study with We! Connect cards
Chad Littlefield, Heather Zimmerman, 2017,
Learning in and about rural places
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Jennifer L. Weible, 2017, Cultural Studies of Science Education on p. 7-31
Technology-mediated engagement with nature
Lucy R. McClain, Heather Toomey Zimmerman, 2016, International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement on p. 385-399
Most-Cited Papers
Personalized workplace learning
Christopher Gamrat, Heather Zimmerman, Jaclyn Dudek, Kyle Leonard 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 Mary Land, Heather Zimmerman, 2015, Educational Technology Research and Development on p. 229-255
Participating in science at home
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, 2012, Journal of Research in Science Teaching on p. 597-630
Facilitating Place-Based Learning in Outdoor Informal Environments with Mobile Computers
Heather Zimmerman, Susan Mary Land, 2014, TechTrends on p. 77-83
Tree Investigators: Supporting families' scientific talk in an arboretum with mobile computers
H. Zimmerman, Susan Land, Lucy McClain, Michael Mohney, Gi Choi, Fariha Salman, 2015, International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement on p. 44-67
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
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
Learning in and about rural places
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Jennifer L. Weible, 2017, Cultural Studies of Science Education on p. 7-31
Intergenerational learning at a nature center
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Lucy Richardson McClain, 2014, Environmental Education Research on p. 177-201
Using augmented reality to support children’s situational interest and science learning during context-sensitive informal mobile learning
Heather Toomey Zimmerman, Susan M. Land, Yong Ju Jung, 2016, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing on p. 101-119