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  • Is It an Animal?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about animals. The probe is designed to find out what characteristics students use to determine whether an organism is classified as an animal.

  • Distance Learning, A Year Later

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  • Curiosity, Creativity, and Courage

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  • How does something start moving?

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  • Sugar Water

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about dissolving. The probe is designed to find out what students think happens to sugar when it dissolves in water.

  • The Global Importance of Science Education

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  • Ecosystem Cycles

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    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…

  • Chicken Eggs

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    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…

  • How can clothing protect us from burns?

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  • Summer Talk

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about seasons. The probe can be used to determine whether students recognize the effect of the Earth’s tilt on its axis and the resulting intensity of…

  • Chicken Eggs

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    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…

  • How Do Our Noses Smell Things?

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  • Digital Collaborative Spaces for Sensemaking

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    Whether you are teaching in the classroom, distance-learning environment, or a combination of the two, our goal remains the same – to provide ALL students opportunities and access to science learning. In this…

  • Where Does Oil Come From?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about an important fossil fuel used by humans. The probe is designed to reveal how students trace oil back to its original source of material.

  • Why Is a Covered Planet a Healthy Planet?

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