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What’s Inside Our Solar System?
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the solar system. The probe is designed to find out if students can distinguish between objects in the solar system and objects outside of the solar system and recognize that t...
By Page Keeley and Cary Sneider
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the greenhouse effect. The probe is designed to reveal whether students confuse the greenhouse effect with other environmental concerns or lump the concerns together. ...
By Page Keeley and Laura Tucker
Lesson Plan
Where Do You Find Earth’s Plates?
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about Earth’s plates. The probe is designed to find out where students think tectonic plates are located. ...
By Page Keeley and Laura Tucker
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the formation of the Grand Canyon. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize the role of rivers and flowing water and connect them to the processes of weathering ...
By Page Keeley and Laura Tucker
Lesson Plan
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about why the constellations change with the seasons. The probe is designed to find out how students use the Earth’s spin and orbit to explain why different constellations are visi...
By Page Keeley and Cary Sneider
Journal Article
Influencing Perceptions of STEM Through the Best STEM Books List
By Scott Bartholomew and Alexia Seymour
Journal Article
An Engineering Funds of Knowledge Framework
By Kathleen Schenkel, Angela Calabrese Barton, Chelsey Wiersma, Olivia Eiden, Edna Tan and Scott Calabrese Barton
Journal Article
By Aisling Leavy, Mairéad Hourigan, Anne O’Dwyer, Claire Carroll, Edward Corry, and Miriam Hamilton
Lesson Plan
What Do You Know About Volcanoes and Earthquakes?
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about plate tectonic features and events. The probe is designed to uncover commonly held misconceptions about volcanoes and earthquakes. ...
By Page Keeley and Laura Tucker
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about Earth’s natural resources. The probe is designed to find out if students can distinguish between renewable and nonrenewable natural resources. ...
By Page Keeley and Laura Tucker
Lesson Plan
Are They Talking About Climate or Weather?
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about climate. The probe is designed to find out whether students distinguish between weather and climate. ...
By Page Keeley and Laura Tucker
Lesson Plan
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the Sun and stars. The probe is designed to uncover students’ ideas about the nature of stars and their recognition that the Sun is an average star, but much closer to us tha...
By Page Keeley and Cary Sneider
Journal
Science Scope—September/October 2021
Volume 45, Number 1 September/October 2021 What can you do to promote creative thinking in your classroom? Consider a project-based learning approach and involve your students in competitions, science fairs, and engineering tasks. Connect the...
Journal
Science Scope—November/December 2021
Volume 45, Number 2 November/December 2021 The Importance of Professional Development Nearly all teachers participate in professional development (PD), much of which is mandated by individual states and school districts....
Journal
The Science Teacher—September/October 2021
Volume 89, Number 1 September/October 2021 In this social justice-themed issue, we look at examples of educators implementing lessons, labs, and activities that make classrooms more critically-just places. Their work is to be applauded and em...
Journal
Science and Children—November/December 2021
Volume 59, Number 2 In this issue of Science and Children, we explore ways to support science learning and language acquisition for all students. Whether through questioning, assistive technology, scientific modeling, or guided exploration,...
Journal
Science and Children—September/October 2021
Volume 59, Number 1 September/October 2021 In this issue of Science and Children, we focus on how teachers plan for and implement three-dimensional lessons for a wide variety of topics for all grades....
Lesson Plan
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about weather versus climate. The probe is designed to find out if students distinguish between a one-time weather-related change and a change in climate. ...
By Page Keeley and Laura Tucker
Lesson Plan
What Happens When You Bring a Balloon Near Wall
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about electrical interactions. The probe is designed to find out how students visually represent electrical interactions. ...
By Page Keeley and Rand Harrington
Lesson Plan
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about density. The probe is designed to find out whether students have commonly held ideas about mass, volume, shape, and other properties that interfere with their conceptual unders...
By Page Keeley and Susan Cooper
Journal Article
Science Teaching Goes Global with State Department Support
By Betsy Devlin-Foltz and Maxine Pitter Lunn
Journal
Journal of College Science Teaching—July/August 2021
July/August 2021 Volume 50, Number 6 View the NSTA Digital Edition ...
Journal Article
Modeling Magnetism With the Floating Paper Clip
By Sarah Braden, Lauren Barth-Cohen, Sara Gailey, and Tamara Young