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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.
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Working Together to Save Lives
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the role of different professions in contributing to the solution of a problem that benefits society, such as the development of a lifesaving…
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about cell size. The probe is designed to reveal whether students think animal cell size is determined by the size of the animal.
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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…
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What Makes Them Tick? Middle School Data Science Explorations of Ticks and Lyme Disease
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Journal Article |
With calls to reassess higher education teaching methods, active learning practices have quickly become a popular alternative to traditional lectures, especially in STEM courses that traditionally rely heavily on large…
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Transitioning from Scientific Inquiry to Three-Dimensional Teaching and Learning
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Patterns, Puzzles, and the Periodic Table
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From the Field: Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, September 6, 2022
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International Science Education and the National Science Teaching Association
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From the Field: Events and Opportunities, July 27, 2021
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Freebies for Science Teachers/From the Field, March 15, 2022
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Journal Article |
[A] major goal for science education should be to provide all students with the background to systematically investigate issues related to their personal and community priorities. They should be able to frame…
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Early Childhood Science Education
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