Is It Food?

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about food. The probe is designed to find out if students use a scientific definition of food to distinguish food items from nonfood items.

Hot and Cold Balloons

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about conservation of matter. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that the mass of a warm gas in a closed system is the same after…

AD 536

Case Study | September 2021

Wonder-Full Thinking

Journal Article | March 2022

Research Project-Based Learning in Meteorology Using an Online Severe Weather Events Archive

Journal Article | July 2023

This article presents a semester-long, interdisciplinary project-based learning (PBL) suitable for secondary and postsecondary students enrolled in a second-semester (i.e., intermediate) meteorology course. This case-…

Using Open-World Games to Support Inclusive Approaches to Computational Thinking

Journal Article | February 2023

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…

What Is a Hypothesis?

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about hypotheses. The probe is designed to find out if students understand what a hypothesis is, when it is used, and how it is developed.

Nature of Science

Position Statement | June 2020

Freebies for Science Teachers, January 19, 2021

Reports Article | January 2021

Breathing New Life Into Elementary Science Preservice Teacher Education

Journal Article | June 2018

Environmental Education

Position Statement | June 2020

Adaptation

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about biological adaptation. The probe is designed to find out if students think animals intentionally adapt to a change in their environment.

Floating Balloon

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the mass of a gas. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that an uninflated balloon will increase in mass when inflated with a…