Some of You Are Smiling Now

Journal Article | April 2022

Climate Justice: Science for a Better World

Journal Article | August 2021

A Magnetic Attraction

Journal Article | October 2021

Rolling Marbles

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about circular motion. The probe is designed to determine whether students recognize that an object will move in a straight line unless acted upon by an…

Summer Talk

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about seasons. The probe can be used to determine whether students recognize the effect of the Earth’s tilt on its axis and the resulting intensity of…

Sugar Water

Lesson Plan | December 2022

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.

Doing Science

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about scientific investigations. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize that scientists investigate the natural world in a variety of…

Unnoticed Sunballs All Around Us

Journal Article | May 2022

It Can Happen Here!

Journal Article | May 2023

Science For All

Journal Article | February 2020

Using Literature in the Science Classroom

Journal Article | December 2020

Tinkering vs. Engineering

Journal Article | July 2020

Are We Recognizing the Sheer Power of Mother Nature?

Journal Article | May 2020

Equity for All

Journal Article | June 2020

Chicken Eggs

Lesson Plan | December 2022

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…