Formative Assessment Probes: Is It Erosion or Weathering? | NSTA

Formative Assessment Probes: Is It Erosion or Weathering?

Science and Children—March 2016

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. The formative assessment probe in this month’s issue can be used as an initial elicitation before students are introduced to the formal concepts of weathering and erosion.

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