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This probe is designed to elicit students’ ideas about changing the direction of motion in the absence of air. Many students will have seen movies or television shows in which spaceships turn by banking or using wing…
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about pairs of forces that fit Newton’s third law. The probe is specifically designed to reveal whether students can identify third law force pairs as…
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Big Books Have a Big Impact on Elementary Science Education
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Preservice elementary teachers are faced with the daunting task of learning enough about every subject to support their students’ development of foundational ideas. Teacher preparation programs and professional…
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to comprehensively elicit students’ ideas about the relationship between force and motion. The list of possible answers includes several distracters that are based on learning…
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Quickly Teaching Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration—Part 2
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In the February 2019 issue we looked at teaching speed and velocity. Now we’re ready to tackle acceleration.
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Modifying Traditional Labs to Target Scientific Reasoning
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This article showcases how a physics lab course was successfully redesigned to promote important reasoning abilities not explicitly addressed in the typical college setting. Student development of such abilities is…
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the nature of science. The probe is designed to find out if students distinguish scientific theories from the common use of the word theory and if…
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What force is pushing the model rocket up?
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Beyond the Notes: From Passive Collectors to Active Investigators
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Before Students Can Become Scientists, They Must Believe They Belong
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The Art and Science of Prompt Engineering
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