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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about seeds. It specifically probes to find out if students recognize that a seed ...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about plant growth. It specifically probes to find out if students think plants on...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about food and plants. The probe is designed to reveal whether students use a biol...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about transformation of matter. The probe is designed to reveal whether students r...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about cell size. The probe is designed to find out if students think that animal c...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about when objects can be seen in the sky. Students’ explanations reveal their t...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about density and buoyancy. The probe is designed to find out how students think a...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about density. The task is designed to find out if students think a solid object w...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about boiling point. The probe is designed to find out whether students recognize ...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about particles during a change in state. The probe is designed to find out if stu...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about chemical bonds. The probe is designed to find out if students think bonds ar...
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Fact or Fiction: Exploring the Myths and Realities of Nanotechnology
Will clouds of self-replicating nanobots take over the world, or is this just a scene from a science fiction novel? Nanotechnology is a rapidly growin...
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Biomimicry: The Mystery of the Lotus Effect
One of the most interesting applications of nanoscale science involves nanomimicry—or technology that mimics the unique structures of biomaterials. ...
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How Nature Builds Itself: Self-Assembly
By designing and building models with Legos and placing them in a reaction chamber, students will simulate the process of molecular self-assembly. Thi...
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At the nanoscale, a completely different set of forces and interactions are experienced by molecules and atoms than we experience at the human scale. ...