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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about light and the Moon. The probe is designed to find out what students think is t...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about eclipses. The probe is designed to find out what students think causes a lunar...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about weight and pressure. The probe is designed to determine whether students think...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about magnetism. The probe is specifically designed to determine whether students be...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about dissolving. The probe is designed to find out what students think happens to s...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about food, transformation of matter, growth and development, conservation of mass, ...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about biological adaptation. The probe is designed to find out if students think ani...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about crystalline solids.The probe is specifically designed to determine how student...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about biological evolution. The probe is designed to find out if students distinguis...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about the effect of solar radiation on Earth's temperature. The probe is designed to...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about conservation of matter during combustion. The probe is designed to find out if...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about temperature in the context of phases of matter. The probe is designed to find ...
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If students develop an understanding of how science inquiry is done and how it contributes to understanding the natural world, they will be better pre...
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Ethology—the study of animal behavior—combines the observational skills of a natural historian with modern insights from ecologists, geneticists, ...
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The ultimate function of most physiological processes is to help organisms maintain overall homeostasis, while letting them adapt to changes in intern...