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  • Monitoring Microplastics in Surface Water—A Pacing Guide for Grades 5–12

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  • Pennies

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the properties of atoms. The probe is designed to determine whether students can distinguish between the microscopic properties of an atom and the…

  • Salt Crystals

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about crystalline solids. The probe is specifically designed to determine how students think atoms are arranged and move in a crystalline lattice.

  • Turning the Dial

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about a physical property of matter. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that under the same conditions, boiling point remains the…

  • Wet Jeans

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the water cycle. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that water goes into the air around us after it evaporates.

  • Socio-scientific Issues Instruction

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  • Focusing the Lens of the Crosscutting Concepts on Secondary Science Learning

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  • Lemonade

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about conservation of matter. The probe is designed to reveal whether students think matter is conserved when a substance is dissolved in a liquid.

  • A balloon that does not burn

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    Using discrepant events to confront misconceptions

  • Community Lead-Ers

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  • Debunking Myths of Standards-Based Grading

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  • Making Everyday Phenomena Phenomenal

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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.

  • Keeping Cool With SageModeler

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  • Engineering Your Own Liquid Soap

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