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Eye Protection and Safer Practices FAQ
Page | February 2020
Eye Protection and Safer Practices FAQ What is My Obligation? Science teachers are obligated to provide students with the safest and most appropriate eye protection for the task that they are being asked to perform. School boards as the employer are required to purchase and teachers as employees to…
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Emphasizing Physics Concepts With Cartoons, Part II
Journal Article | March 2020
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Incorporating Principles of Social Justice, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Classroom
Journal Article | July 2022
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Journal Article | October 2021
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Online Connections: Science and Children
Page | January 2020
Online Connections: Science and Children July/August 2021 Teaching Through Trade Books—Pushing, Pulling, and Predicting Force Patterns K-2 3-5 Engineering Encounters—Turn Up the Music! Turn Up The Music Supplemental Resources Using Toys to Create a Global…
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Lesson Plan | December 2022
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.
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Lesson Plan | December 2022
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about forces. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize that balanced forces act on a stationary object.
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Interdisciplinary Lessons on Energy and Entropy
Journal Article | May 2022
This article presents ideas and narratives of an experiment on the concept of energy developed for an honors seminar on energy and a mechanics course. We argue that energy is an idea best taught in an interdisciplinary…
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Journal Article | June 2021
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The historically important equations of Newton, Ohm, and Planck
Journal Article | September 2019
Building an understanding of physical principles
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Lesson Plan | June 2021
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit beginning ideas about types of forces. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that forces can act both in direct contact with an object and at a…
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What Happens When You Bring a Balloon Near Wall
Lesson Plan | June 2021
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about electrical interactions. The probe is designed to find out how students visually represent electrical interactions.
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Lesson Plan | December 2022
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about complete circuits involving lightbulbs. The probe reveals whether students recognize the pathway of electricity in a complete circuit, including…
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Press Release | March 2021
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