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  • A balloon that does not burn

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    Using discrepant events to confront misconceptions

  • Features of an Effective Future-Faculty Teaching-Development Program

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    Many institutions are preparing graduate students and postdoctorals (future faculty) for effective teaching in undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Interestingly, little is known…

  • From the Field: Events and Opportunities, September 29, 2020

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  • Arguing About a Chemical Change

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  • Sugar Water

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about dissolving. The probe is designed to find out what students think happens to sugar when it dissolves in water.

  • Soil Texture 5E

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  • Solar Eclipse

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about eclipses. The probe is designed to find out what students think happens during a solar eclipse.

  • Gazing at the Moon

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the Earth-Sun-Moon system. The probe is designed to uncover students’ ideas about Moon phases and whether they think the phase of the Moon changes…

  • The Carbon Cycle and Climate Change

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  • Globalize Your Classroom

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    Employing global collaboration to develop student communication skills using the water cycle

  • What Is a Hypothesis?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about hypotheses. The probe is designed to find out if students understand what a hypothesis is, when it is used, and how it is developed.

  • Comparing Cubes

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about properties of matter. The probe is designed to find out which properties students think will change if the size of an object made from the same…

  • Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, April 25, 2023

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