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  • C2AST (Critical and Cultural Approaches to Ambitious Science Teaching)

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  • Learning the Temperature Dependency of Matter by Making Ice Cream

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  • A Thrilling Roller-coaster Ride

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  • STEM Faculty Institute

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    As change agents at our university, we sought to facilitate a transition within our STEM college toward more extensive use of evidence-based instructional practices (EBIPs) that promote student-centered learning. We…

  • Students as Science Content Creators and Evaluators

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    Within the context of higher education, the disciplines of science and filmmaking appear disparate, but the importance of storytelling as an integral part of science and research deserves closer examination. Humans have…

  • Reimagining Science Lessons Through Translanguaging

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  • Test Blueprints in the Science Classroom

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    Sitting in a fall staff meeting, you lean over to tell a science teacher colleague you have settled in for the school year. You have learned your students’ names, your seating chart has changed, and your first…

  • Picture This!

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  • 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.

  • Standing On One Foot

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about weight and pressure. The probe is designed to determine whether students think their weight changes when the force exerted per unit area (pressure…

  • Magnets in Water

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about magnetism. The probe is specifically designed to determine whether students believe air is necessary for magnets to work.

  • A Case of Respiratory Distress

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  • Needs of Seeds

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about seeds. The probe is designed to find out what students think most seeds need to germinate.

  • Using Models to Teach Science

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  • Iron Bar

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about atoms. The probe is specifically designed to determine whether students can use the idea of atoms to explain why a metal expands when heated.…

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