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Building Critical Thinkers by Showing the Societal Impact of Inventions
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about conservation of matter. The probe is designed to reveal whether students think weight is conserved when a whole object is broken up into small…
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Freebies for Science Teachers/From the Field, March 15, 2022
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about different types of models commonly developed by engineers. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that just like scientists,…
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How Crafts Can Be a Science Learning Experience
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We describe a hands-on, collaborative activity designed to illustrate general properties of evolution, provide practice for quantitative skills, promote creativity and collaboration, and enable student self-assessment…
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Why Coherence Matters for Multilingual Learners in Science Instruction
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Newspaper Physics for First-Year College Students
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This article describes and illustrates a physics course for first-year college students whose only knowledge of physics is that they do not like the subject. The physics content is driven entirely by what appears in…
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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, January 17, 2022
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about models. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize that models can take a variety of forms besides physical replicas.
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From the Field: Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, August 16, 2022
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