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Formative Assessment Probes: Uncovering Representations of the Water Cycle

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue explores the effect of representations on children’s thinking about evaporation and the water cycle....

Elementary Earth & Space Science Environmental Science Assessment

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Formative Assessment Probes: Embedding Formative Assessment Into the 5E Instructional Model

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue includes an illustrative example of how formative assessment probes and formative assessment classroom techniques can be embedded into a sequence of 5E lessons target...

Elementary 5E Assessment Pedagogy

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Teaching Teachers: Assessing Students as Scientists

This column enhances the repertoire of preservice and inservice teachers. Supporting teachers in assessing students’ scientific thinking....

Elementary General Science Assessment NGSS Science and Engineering Practices Teaching Strategies Preservice Science Education Professional Learning old

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Formative Assessment Probes: Vocabulary in Context: What Is an Amphibian?

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue explores what characteristics make an amphibian....

Elementary Life Science Assessment Disciplinary Core Ideas

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Methods and Strategies: Time to Change

This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue discusses embedding literacy into the 5E while addressing the principles of the Next Generation Science Standards....

Elementary General Science 5E Assessment NGSS Pedagogy Teaching Strategies Literacy New Science Teachers Preservice Science Education Professional Learning old