How Do We Know What Isopods Do?

Lesson Plan | April 2020

How Can We Pull Colors Apart?

Lesson Plan | October 2020

How Can Vaccinating One Population Affect Another?

Lesson Plan | April 2020

Is It Melting?

Lesson Plan | August 2020

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the physical process of melting. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize melting as a change in state from solid to liquid that…

Where Do Stars Go?

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about stars. The probe is designed to examine students’ ideas about the location of stars in the daytime.

Coldest Winter Ever!

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about weather versus climate. The probe is designed to find out if students distinguish between a one-time weather-related change and a change in climate…

Daily Do: Colors (PreK)

Playlist | February 2021

Are They Talking About Climate or Weather?

Lesson Plan | July 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about climate. The probe is designed to find out whether students distinguish between weather and climate.

This Land Is Your Land

Lesson Plan | March 2020

Why Does the Cracker Taste Sweet?

Lesson Plan | May 2020

Summer Talk

Lesson Plan | December 2022

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about seasons. The probe can be used to determine whether students recognize the effect of the Earth’s tilt on its axis and the resulting intensity of…

What’s Inside Our Solar System?

Lesson Plan | July 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the solar system. The probe is designed to find out if students can distinguish between objects in the solar system and objects outside of the…

How Will The Plant Grow?

Lesson Plan | August 2020