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  • Baby Mice

    Lesson Plan |

    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about heredity. The probe is designed to reveal how students think organisms inherit observable traits.

  • Is It an Engineering Problem?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about how to approach a problem. The probe is designed to gain insight into how students think about an engineering design process (EDP) and the kinds of…

  • Whale and Shrew

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about cell size. The probe is designed to reveal whether students think animal cell size is determined by the size of the animal.

  • Back to Mars

    Journal Article |

  • Data Literacy 101

    Journal Article |

  • Is This Watershed Contaminated With PCBs?

    Journal Article |

  • COVID-19: Sanitizing Lab PPE and More

    Blog Post |

  • 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.

  • Do Plants Breathe?

    Journal Article |

    The idea that plants do photosynthesis but do not do cellular respiration is a common misconception among middle and high school students that often stems from an over-simplification of these processes in diagrams and…

  • Climate Change Causes Extreme Weather Events: Yes, No, or Wrong Question?

    Blog Post |

  • Making as a Performance Task

    Journal Article |

  • Ice-Cold Lemonade

    Lesson Plan |

    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about transfer of energy. The probe is designed to determine whether students recognize that heat flows from warmer objects or areas to cooler ones.

  • The War Over Water Continues

    Journal Article |

    Debates over water allocation help students understand Earth systems.

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