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  • How Professional Organizations Can Support Noyce Scholars: The Case for NSTA

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  • Engaging Students in Science Learning: A Productive Approach to Classroom Management

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    In this module, participants consider the relationship between fostering student engagement through tapping into their curiosity and positive behavior choices in the classroom. Participants explore two different ways of…

  • Whole-Class Discussion Strategies That Engage Students and Enhance Understanding

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  • Mysteries of the Deep: UUVs and Digitizing Ocean Communication

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  • Laboratory Air Quality Is Nothing to Sneeze At

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  • Rotting Apple

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about decay and decomposers. The probe can be used to determine whether students recognize the need for a biological agent to break down once-living…

  • Will It Form a New Substance?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about chemical change. The probe is designed to find out how students determine whether a new substance with a different chemical makeup is formed when…

  • The Rusty Nails

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about a common phenomenon—rusting. The probe is designed to find out what students think happens to the mass of iron nails after a chemical change.

  • Beach Sand

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about beach formation. It is designed to reveal whether students use concepts of weathering, erosion, and deposition to explain how a beach made up of…

  • Nails in a Jar

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about conservation of matter during a chemical change (oxidation). The probe is designed to find out if students think the mass changes as rust forms…

  • Where Would It Fall?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the distribution of land, oceans, freshwater, and ice. The probe is designed to find out whether students realize that most of the Earth is covered…

  • Moonlight

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about light and the Moon. The probe is designed to find out what students think is the source of a full Moon’s light.

  • Ecologist

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    Ecologists are biologists who study entire ecosystems and the interactions among their living and non-living components. Ecology can be applied in areas such as conservation biology, natural resource management, and…

  • Exploring Cell Biology Through a Silent Teaching Film From 1929

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    Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress

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