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  • 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…

  • Floating Logs

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about floating and sinking. The probe is designed to find out if students think changing the size of an object affects how it floats.

  • Mixing Water

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about temperature change in a system. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize that heat moves from the warm water to the cool water…

  • Where Do You Find Earth’s Plates?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about Earth’s plates. The probe is designed to find out where students think tectonic plates are located.

  • How Do Technologies Change?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about how technologies change. The probe is designed to see if students are aware of the way nearly all technologies change over time.

  • The Democratization of Photography

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  • iNaturalist: Citizen Science for the Digital Age

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  • Design Your Own Navy

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    Virtual shipbuilding technology from professional naval engineeers

  • The Science Project Portfolio

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    Transform the science fair experience into an authentic summative assessment.

  • The Carbon Cycle and Climate Change

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  • Ecologist

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    Ecologists are biologists who study entire ecosystems and the interactions among their living and non-living components. Ecology can be applied in areas such as conservation biology, natural resource management, and…

  • Sustainable Forest Management

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    Students measure growth trends in the school woods.

  • Air Quality Science for All

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  • A Podcast You Should Know: SYSK

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  • Soldiers of Science

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