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History Of Life On Earth (Trends In Evolution)
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The purpose of this activity is to help students understand the diversification and extinction of species within families during the history of life on Earth. This activity also helps students learn how to engage in…
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Surviving Winter in the Dust Bowl (Food Chains and Trophic Levels)
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The purpose of this activity is to help students understand food chains, the interactions between trophic levels, the interdependency of organisms, and how energy flows through a system. This activity also helps…
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Assessments and Student Samples
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This Assessment chapter is meant to help teachers identify the components of an argument in students’ work and how to use the rubric to provide feedback and grading. Student samples are provided and identified as high,…
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Introduction to the Curriculum
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In this chapter, the development behind this book is discussed. As well as the importance of performance-based assessment and preparing your students for inquiry labs. This chapters gives you an overview of what you…
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Before delving into each individual activity presented in the book, The Case of Kirsten K. , it is important to understand an overall picture of the forensics case itself and what is expected of the students. This…
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The Cooler and Delivery Truck Evidence
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Based on your students’ knowledge of chemistry, local police have asked for their help in solving a local missing-persons case. The victim in this case is Kirsten K. Your students will try to determine which of the…
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In this chapter, the police are asking your students to analyze new evidence to determine the type of chemical substances present and possibly match the substances at the crime scene to the suspects involved in the case…
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The Nuclear Radiation Evidence
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The performance assessment, in this chapter, consists of four parts. In the first part, your students will analyze the soil samples collected at the crime scene and compare them to soil samples from each of the suspects…
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A second victim has been found! In this chapter, four performance assessments are presented. In part I of the assessment students will need to analyze fingerprints. Secondly, students will try to match the two types of…
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Police have learned some additional information about the suspects involved in this case, and their relationship to the victim. In Part I of the performance assessment, Police have mixed up the infared spectroscopy (IR…
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As with all large projects, there are often many ways to approach the final assessment. Since the inception of this project, the authors have tried numerous methods to evaluate this yearlong performance assessment—some…
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Toothbrush Design—Is There A Better Bristle?
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What kind of toothbrush do you use—manual or electric? What is the shape of the head and the handle? Could you describe the firmness and the layout of the bristles? Or count the number of bristles? In this 5E Model…
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the shape of the Earth. The probe is designed to find out how students reconcile the idea that the Earth is round, represented by the globe that…
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about relative size. The probe is designed to find out how large students think the Earth is compared with the Sun.
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about sunspots. The probe is designed to determine if students are aware of a prominent feature of the Sun that they can observe under safe conditions—…
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