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Formative Assessment Probe

Block Diagrams

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Part of: Uncovering Student Ideas About Engineering and Technology: 32 New Formative Assessment Probes

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about block diagrams. The probe is designed to examine how students interpret a block diagram, and to determine whether they recognize that technologies include processes as well as products.

 

Formative Assessment Probe

How Do Technologies Change?

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Part of: Uncovering Student Ideas About Engineering and Technology: 32 New Formative Assessment Probes

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about how technologies change. The probe is designed to see if students are aware of the way nearly all technologies change over time.

 

Middle School Elementary High School    |    Formative Assessment Probe

What’s the Purpose of Technology?

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Part of: Uncovering Student Ideas About Engineering and Technology: 32 New Formative Assessment Probes

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the purpose of technology. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize that technologies are developed to meet human needs and preserve the environment.

 

Formative Assessment Probe

Is It a Technology?

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Part of: Uncovering Student Ideas About Engineering and Technology: 32 New Formative Assessment Probes

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about what is and what is not technology. The probe is designed to find out if students have a broad understanding of technology as defined in the Framework (NRC 2012)..

 

Formative Assessment Probe

Surrounded by Technologies

By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel

Part of: Uncovering Student Ideas About Engineering and Technology: 32 New Formative Assessment Probes

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ understanding of the word technology. The probe is designed to find out if students are aware that they live in a world composed almost entirely of technological objects, systems, and processes.

 

Middle School    |    Daily Do

Where Did the Water Come From?

Where Did the Water Come From?

 

Middle School Elementary Informal Education    |    Daily Do

Why Are Plane Designs So Different?

Why Are Plane Designs So Different?

Archive: Lab Safety Considerations for Back to School, August 31, 2020

This interactive web seminar will begin with an overview and framing of safety protocols specific for science/STEM laboratory considerations with Dr. Ken Roy, NSTA and NSELA Safety Compliance Advisor/specialist and Dr. Kevin Doyle of Morris Hills Regional School District. 

This interactive web seminar will begin with an overview and framing of safety protocols specific for science/STEM laboratory considerations with Dr. Ken Roy, NSTA and NSELA Safety Compliance Advisor/specialist and Dr. Kevin Doyle of Morris Hills Regional School District. 

This interactive web seminar will begin with an overview and framing of safety protocols specific for science/STEM laboratory considerations with Dr. Ken Roy, NSTA and NSELA Safety Compliance Advisor/specialist and Dr. Kevin Doyle of Morris Hills Regional School District. 

This interactive web seminar will begin with an overview and framing of safety protocols specific for science/STEM laboratory considerations with Dr. Ken Roy, NSTA and NSELA Safety Compliance Advisor/specialist and Dr. Kevin Doyle of Morris Hills Regional School District. 

 

Middle School High School    |    Daily Do

Why Do We All Have to Stay Home?

Secondary Edition

Why Do We All Have to Stay Home?

 

Diversity and Equity

Build a Better Book

The Value of Adding Meaning to the Making

Connected Science Learning July–September 2020 (Volume 2, Issue 3)

By Stacey Forsyth, Kathryn Penzkover, Bridget Dalton, and Gigi Yang

Build a Better Book

Read about Build a Better Book, a makerspace initiative that engages youth in an authentic design and fabrication experience focused on the creation of inclusive media for children who are blind or low vision.
Read about Build a Better Book, a makerspace initiative that engages youth in an authentic design and fabrication experience focused on the creation of inclusive media for children who are blind or low vision.
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