Uncovering Student Ideas Probes

Lesson Plan

An Engineering Design Process

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about an engineering design process. The probe is designed to show how students th...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Middle School Elementary High School Engineering STEM

Lesson Plan

Block Diagrams

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about block diagrams. The probe is designed to examine how students interpret a bl...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Assessment Engineering STEM

Lesson Plan

Brainstorming

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about brainstorming. The probe is designed to determine the extent to which studen...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Middle School Elementary High School Engineering STEM

Lesson Plan

Designing With Math and Science

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about how science and math are both used in engineering. The probe is designed to ...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Middle School High School Engineering STEM

Lesson Plan

Engineering and Nature

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about how engineers use designs from nature. The probe is designed to see if stude...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Middle School Elementary High School Engineering STEM

Lesson Plan

Engineers’ Models

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about different types of models commonly developed by engineers. The probe is desi...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Middle School Elementary High School Engineering STEM

Lesson Plan

How Are Science and Engineering Similar?

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the ways in which science and engineering are similar. The probe is designed...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Middle School High School Engineering STEM

Lesson Plan

How Do Engineers Solve Problems?

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about how engineers use an engineering design process to solve problems. The probe...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Middle School Elementary High School Engineering STEM

Lesson Plan

How Do Technologies Change?

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about how technologies change. The probe is designed to see if students are aware ...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Assessment Engineering STEM

Lesson Plan

Is Engineering Creative?

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about creativity in engineering. The probe is designed to determine the extent to ...

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Middle School Elementary High School Engineering STEM