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  • Grand Canyon

    Lesson Plan |

    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the formation of the Grand Canyon. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize the role of rivers and flowing water and connect them to…

  • The Greenhouse Effect

    Lesson Plan |

    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the greenhouse effect. The probe is designed to reveal whether students confuse the greenhouse effect with other environmental concerns or lump the…

  • We have got a Problem to Solve! Now What?

    Professional Learning Unit |

    Science standards based on A Framework for K-12 Science Education require us to provide opportunities for students to learn “how science is utilized, in particular through the engineering design process, and they should…

  • Analyzing and Interpreting Data to Support Student Sensemaking in a High School Evolution Unit

    Professional Learning Unit |

    This Professional Learning Unit uses a storyline unit with an anchoring phenomenon that is a case study in which the patient has acute mountain sickness at Everest base camp to focus participant learning on how the…

  • Becoming a Critical Consumer of STEM Instructional Materials

    Professional Learning Unit |

    Being a critical consumer of STEM Instructional materials is an important educator goal that boosts STEM career awareness and STEM career skills. 

  • The Soda Can Crusher Challenge

    Journal Article |

  • STEM-ify Me: It’s Elementary! Designing Butterfly Wings

    Journal Article |

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