Will It Form a New Substance?

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about chemical change. The probe is designed to find out how students determine whether a new substance with a different chemical makeup is formed when…

Can we predict what will happen to the speed of an asteroid after a collision?

Lesson Plan | December 2024

How Were the Scablands Formed?

Lesson Plan | September 2020

How Do Ants Help the Plants and Animals of the Woods?

Playlist | July 2021

How Do NASCAR Race Car Tires Take the Heat? (Part 1: Physical Changes)

Lesson Plan | July 2021

How does sonar work, and how can sonar create more complete and accurate maps of the seafloor?

Lesson Plan | August 2025

What caused Hurricane Ida to rapidly intensify?

Lesson Plan | September 2024

Making Student Thinking Visible

Blog Post | April 2020

How Do Things Make Sound?

Lesson Plan | July 2021

What variables affect the size of the gravitational force acting on an object in space?

Lesson Plan | December 2024

How Can We Predict and Measure Weather Conditions at our Launch Site to Recommend a Safe Launch Date?

Lesson Plan | May 2023

Why are there differences in case numbers and health outcomes of respiratory disease at the country, regional, and local levels?

Lesson Plan | March 2024

How do propellants generate thrust?

Lesson Plan | June 2024

Should Our City's Wastewater Treatment System Produce Ammonia?

Lesson Plan | February 2022

How Do Population Shifts Affect the Ecosystem?

Lesson Plan | September 2020