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  • Ice Water

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about temperature in the context of phases of matter. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize that the temperature of a substance does…

  • How Do Cells Know Which Amino Acids Go Together to Make Certain Proteins?

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  • Sam’s Puppy

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about growth. The probe can be used to determine whether students recognize that growth occurs as a result of cell division, which increases the number…

  • What makes muscle proteins so different from other proteins in our body? (Playlist Version)

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  • Where Does Oil Come From?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about an important fossil fuel used by humans. The probe is designed to reveal how students trace oil back to its original source of material.

  • 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…

  • Camping Trip

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the effect of solar radiation on Earth’s temperature. The probe is designed to find out whether students realize the Earth continues to cool after…

  • Wet Jeans

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the water cycle. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that water goes into the air around us after it evaporates.

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

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  • Co-Constructing Classroom Agreements with Students

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    Science is social! Norms can support a classroom community in which students and teachers actively try to make sense of the natural and built worlds.

  • How Do Hooved, Herding Herbivores Help the Soil?

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  • How Does a Rocket's Recovery System Deploy?

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  • Thermometer

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about thermal expansion. The probe is designed to find out whether students attribute expansion of the space between molecules to the rise of the liquid…

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