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  • Understanding and Addressing Ambiguity in the STEM Classroom

    Journal Article |

    The science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields are some of the most jargon-heavy areas in higher education. As such, teaching and learning in these areas includes challenges with lexically ambiguous…

  • Multilingual Families and Field Trips

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  • Darkness at Night

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the day/night cycle. The probe is designed to determine whether students recognize that Earth’s rotation explains why it is dark at night and light…

  • From Bean to Cup

    Journal Article |

    Coffee comes to the science lab

  • Test Blueprints in the Science Classroom

    Journal Article |

    Sitting in a fall staff meeting, you lean over to tell a science teacher colleague you have settled in for the school year. You have learned your students’ names, your seating chart has changed, and your first…

  • Catching a Cold

    Lesson Plan |

    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about infectious disease. The probe is designed to find out whether students use the germ theory to explain what causes an infectious disease like the…

  • Cookie Crumbles

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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…

  • Facilitating Emancipatory and Justice-Centered Environmental and Climate Learning

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  • Re-imagining the Role of Families as Equal Partners in STEM Learning

    Journal Article |

  • Floating Logs

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about floating and sinking. The probe is designed to find out if students think changing the size of an object affects how it floats.

  • Mixing Water

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about temperature change in a system. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize that heat moves from the warm water to the cool water…

  • New Ways to Breathe

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  • How Many Fish are Really in the Sea?

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  • Genetics for All

    Journal Article |

    This paper highlights learning supports associated with genetics lessons that were implemented in a urban high school biology classroom. The supports provided access to science content for ELs, students with IEPs, and…

  • Globalize Your Classroom

    Journal Article |

    Employing global collaboration to develop student communication skills using the water cycle

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