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  • Modifying labs for students with special needs

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  • STEM Bridge Program

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    We explored underrepresented minority (URM) students’ perceptions of the merit and worth of a summer STEM bridge program. The Ohio State Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation program facilitated a three-week…

  • 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.

  • Science That’s Out of This World

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  • The Boxcar Challenge Unit

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  • Come On Feel The Noise

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  • Biological/Chemical Waste Management

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  • 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.

  • Using Storylines to Support Three-Dimensional Learning in Project-Based Science

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  • Is It Made of Molecules?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about molecules. The probe is designed to uncover whether students recognize that objects, materials, and substances of both a biological and physical…

  • A Home for Three Little Pigs

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    Preschool students learn about engineering through designing and testing homes.

  • Using Insect Biodiversity to Build Basic Skills

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  • Making Science Personal

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    General education college astronomy courses offer instructors both a unique audience and a unique challenge. For many students, such a course may be their first time encountering a stand-alone astronomy class, and it is…

  • Ice-Cold Lemonade

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about transfer of energy. The probe is designed to determine whether students recognize that heat flows from warmer objects or areas to cooler ones.

  • Chicken Eggs

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about food, transformation of matter, growth and development, conservation of mass, and systems. The concepts underlying this probe are complex. It is…

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