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  • Yes, and Cross-Curricular Planning for Preschool

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  • Using Popular Fiction to Inspire Scientific Inquiry

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    Many teacher educator preparation programs do not provide opportunities for preservice teachers (PSTs) to experience and examine the use of popular fiction as a connection point to science teaching. This study explores…

  • A Problem-Solving Experiment

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  • Boiling Time and Temperature

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the boiling point of a pure substance. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize that the boiling point of a pure substance…

  • Geoscience Education and Motivated Reasoning

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    Individuals use information selectively, in ways that support group beliefs or one’s psychological needs—this is motivated reasoning. Motivated reasoning is revealed in correlations between (1) opinions/…

  • Turning the Dial

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about a physical property of matter. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that under the same conditions, boiling point remains the…

  • Warming waters

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    Astronomy throughout the year

  • 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…

  • Freezing Ice

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about freezing point. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize that the temperature at which water freezes is independent of the volume.

  • Heat Reinvented

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  • Using Drama to Uncover and Expand Student Understandings of the Nature of Science

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  • Surface Tension and Surfactants

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  • Science Instructional Space Safety Signage

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  • Cool It!

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