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Is It Possible to Turn Coal Into Diamonds?
How cool would it be to be Lois Lane? Anytime she wants a diamond, she just has Superman use his super strength to squeeze a lump of coal. But is this...
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Scale is one of the big ideas that cross the science domains. Whether one is talking about the weight of a blue whale, the size of a galaxy or a molec...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about thermal expansion. It is designed to find out whether students attribute exp...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the mass of a gas. It is designed to reveal whether students recognize that ...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about conservation of matter. It is designed to reveal whether students recognize ...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about reflection of light. It can be used to examine how students use ideas about ...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about complete circuits involving lightbulbs. It reveals whether students recogniz...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about forces. It is designed to find out whether students recognize that balanced ...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about circular motion. It is designed to determine whether students recognize that...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about falling objects. It is designed to find out if students think the weight or ...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the nature of science. It is designed to find out if students distinguish sc...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about scientific investigations. It is designed to find out if students recognize ...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about hypotheses. It is designed to find out if students understand what a hypothe...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about life cycles. The probe can be used to determine whether students recognize t...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the size of cells. It can be used once students understand that all organism...