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  • Teaching in the Coronavirus Era

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  • Using Picture Books to Make Text to Investigation Connections

    Archived Conference Session |

  • Will It Form a New Substance?

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    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…

  • Beach Sand

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about beach formation. It is designed to reveal whether students use concepts of weathering, erosion, and deposition to explain how a beach made up of…

  • Solids and Holes

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the density of a solid object. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize that in this phenomenon, air is not displaced, such as…

  • Warming Water

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about thermal energy. The probe is designed to find out whether students think cold things can have energy.

  • Google Slides

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  • Reflecting on this week’s Daily Do

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  • Mixing Water

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about temperature change in a system. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize that heat moves from the warm water to the cool water…

  • Action Research: Using a 5E Instructional Approach to Improve Undergraduate Physics Laboratory Instruction

    Journal Article |

    A physics laboratory instructor used action research to effectively implement a 5E instructional approach, which incorporated scientific practices. The instructor explored how to integrate the instructional approach…

  • Engineering Science Teacher Creativity!

    Journal Article |

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