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  • Design Thinking With Preschoolers

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  • Learning About Culture and Sustainable Harvesting of Native Plants

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  • Investigating Urban Trees

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  • Windows on the Inquiry Classroom

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    A complete video and documentary record of an inquiry-based nonscience majors’ course has been captured (the “Fire and Ice” Collection). Every moment of 27 class sessions may be observed from several points of view (…

  • Dirty Water? Clean It Up!

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  • Pennies

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the properties of atoms. The probe is designed to determine whether students can distinguish between the microscopic properties of an atom and the…

  • Water Play Is Science

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  • Science at Home

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  • Is It a Solid?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about solids. The probe is designed to reveal the macroscopic and/or microscopic properties students use to decide whether a material is a solid.

  • The Roadster Challenge

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  • Early Childhood Engineering and Natural Resources

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  • Digital Licking

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  • Floating Balloon

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the mass of a gas. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that an uninflated balloon will increase in mass when inflated with a…

  • Iron Bar

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about atoms. The probe is specifically designed to determine whether students can use the idea of atoms to explain why a metal expands when heated.…

  • Hot and Cold Balloons

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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 recognize that the mass of a warm gas in a closed system is the same after…

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