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COVID-19: One Year Later

By Ann Haley MacKenzie

High School Literacy STEM Teaching Strategies

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Force and Motion Ideas

The purpose of this assessment probe is to comprehensively elicit students’ ideas about the relationship between force and motion. The list of possible answers includes several distracters that are based on learning research; thus the probe will te...

By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington

Middle School High School Assessment Physical Science

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Spaceships

This probe is designed to elicit students’ ideas about changing the direction of motion in the absence of air. Many students will have seen movies or television shows in which spaceships turn by banking or using wing flaps. In outer space, where th...

By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington

Middle School High School Assessment Physical Science

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Will It Form a New Substance?

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about chemical change. The probe is designed to find out how students determine whether a new substance with a different chemical makeup is formed when matter undergoes a change. ...

By Page Keeley and Susan Cooper

Middle School High School Assessment Physical Science

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Chicken Eggs

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about food, transformation of matter, growth and development, conservation of mass, and systems. The concepts underlying this probe are complex. It is not important that students kno...

By Page Keeley and Joyce Tugel

Middle School High School Assessment Life Science

Web Seminar

Archive: Using Federal Relief Funding to Support Science Education, July 15, 2021

COVID-19 has affected schools and students across the United States in ways that may not be fullyunderstood for decades. As a result, Congress has made emergency funds available through theAmerican Rescue Plan Act Elementary and Secondary School Emer...

Postsecondary Elementary High School Middle School General Science

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Adaptation

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about biological adaptation. The probe is designed to find out if students think animals intentionally adapt to a change in their environment. ...

By Page Keeley and Joyce Tugel

Middle School High School Assessment Life Science

Web Seminar

Archive: Teacher Tip Tuesday: Learn and Lead on Twitter, August 10, 2021

Explore how Twitter can be a vehicle for your own reflection, collaboration, and learning as well as a way to lead and advocate for science and STEM education by sharing your voice. We invite you to consider registering for more upcoming web ...

Middle School Elementary High School Informal Education General Science

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Ecosystem Cycles

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the transfer of matter and energy in ecosystems. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that only matter is cycled through an ecosystem. ...

By Page Keeley

Middle School High School Assessment Life Science

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