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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.

  • Science Buddies

    Journal Article |

    How-to strategies and classroom management tips

  • Functions of Living Things

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about life processes. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize that plants and animals share several life functions, even though they are…

  • Debunking Myths of Standards-Based Grading

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  • Ice Cubes in a Bag

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about conservation of matter (or mass). The probe is designed to reveal whether students think matter (or mass) is conserved during a change in state.

  • Do Plants Breathe?

    Journal Article |

    The idea that plants do photosynthesis but do not do cellular respiration is a common misconception among middle and high school students that often stems from an over-simplification of these processes in diagrams and…

  • Teacher Spotlight: Paula Hogan

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  • 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…

  • Chicken Eggs

    Lesson Plan |

    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…

  • Engineering Your Own Liquid Soap

    Journal Article |

  • Making Computer Science Accessible

    Journal Article |

  • Is It Food?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about food. The probe is designed to find out if students use a scientific definition of food to distinguish food items from nonfood items.

  • Fact or Fiction

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  • Cooking Under Pressure

    Case Study |

  • Adding Necessary Rigor to Engineering Pedagogical Change

    Journal Article |

    In this study, we explore the teaching of an acclaimed engineering education professor and his struggles to transform his classroom in light of the National Academy of Engineering standards. We argue that pedagogical…

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