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  • Block Diagrams

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about block diagrams. The probe is designed to examine how students interpret a block diagram, and to determine whether they recognize that technologies…

  • Using Climate Models to Learn About Global Climate Change

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  • Science Identity Matters

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  • Connecting Educators Through Equitable and Reflective Practice

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  • Tests, Quizzes, Exams … Oh My!

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  • Iguanas from Above

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  • Moments in the Science Classroom

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  • Arguing About a Chemical Change

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    Use a sample ACT writing prompt in an explore-before-explain instructional sequence to a 9th-grade physical science class to promote student learning and demonstrate that mass is conserved in a chemical reaction

  • Apple in a Plane

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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…

  • Criteria and Constraints

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about criteria and constraints. The probe is designed to identify how students determine the criteria and constraints of a problem and whether one is…

  • Is It Affordable?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about trade-offs. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize that trade-offs involve sacrificing one or more things in favor of another…

  • Cookie Jar Alarms

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    This column describes creating a classroom culture for engineering.

  • Who Does Science?

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  • Socio-scientific Issues Instruction

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  • Objects and Temperature

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about temperature. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize that non–heat-producing objects exposed to the same ambient conditions…

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