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Shrinking Cups: Changes in the Behavior of Materials at the Nanoscale
What if you were only one inch tall? This activity explores the behavior of liquids in different sizes and shapes of drinking containers. Students exp...
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Limits to Size: Could King Kong Exist?
Why can’t spiders be ten feet tall? Can an ape grow to the size of King Kong? Surface area-to-volume relationships help shed light on the question o...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ basic ideas about inheritance of genetic traits. The probe is designed to reveal the var...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the characteristic property of boiling point. The probe is used to find out ...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about intensive and extensive properties of matter. The probe is designed to find ...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the transfer of energy. The probe is designed to determine whether students ...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about adaptation. The probe is designed to reveal whether students think individua...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about density. The probe is designed to find out if students think changing the si...
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The purpose of this probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the day/night cycle. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize that the E...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the relative position of common objects seen in the sky. The probe is design...
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This first chapter starts off with addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, and a few other things. It gives a demonstration of th...
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Given that the vast majority of people reading this book will never ever have to teach calculus, you might be wondering why in the world the topic is ...
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This chapter deals with fractions and decimals. This is one place where people who are otherwise fine with math jump off the boat and decide it's jus...
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This chapter contains basic material related to exponents that is a supplement to Chapters 1 and 2. Keeping with the theme of the first two chapters,...
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This chapter is all about negative numbers, and how to deal with them. They're not all that difficult to understand, but for some reason people get j...