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What’s Inside Our Solar System?
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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…
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about biological adaptation. The probe is designed to find out if students think animals intentionally adapt to a change in their environment.
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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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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about force related to the interaction between inanimate objects. The probe is designed to determine which forces students think act on an object at rest…
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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, April 15, 2025
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NSTA Remembers Past President Fred Blumenfeld
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Freebies for Science Teachers, September 28, 2021
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Lab Safety and the 'Dirty Dozen'
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From the Field: Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, July 19, 2022
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about food, transformation of matter, growth and development, conservation of mass, and systems. The concepts underlying this probe are complex. It is…
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From the Field: Events and Opportunities, August 24, 2021
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