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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 for Science Teachers, November 3, 2020
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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, December 12, 2023
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Freebies for Science Teachers, October 20, 2020
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the greenhouse effect. The probe is designed to reveal whether students confuse the greenhouse effect with other environmental concerns or lump the…
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about global warming. The probe is designed to find out what students think contributes to global warming.
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Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, September 26, 2023
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about seeds. The probe is designed to find out what students think most seeds need to germinate.
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about seeds. The probe is designed to find out what students think most seeds need to germinate.
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Freebies and Opportunities From the Field for Science and STEM Teachers, July 5, 2022
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From the Field: Events and Opportunities, June 29, 2021
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A Layered Approach to Scientific Models
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Freebies for Science and STEM Teachers/From the Field, June 7, 2022
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From the Field: Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, August 2, 2022
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about energy. The probe is designed to find out whether students think “warm clothes,” like a mitten, produce their own energy, manifested as heat.