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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, and systems. The concepts underlying this probe are complex. It is…
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Arguing About a Chemical Change
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Use a sample ACT writing prompt in an explore-before-explain instructional sequence to a 9th-grade physical science class to promote student learning and demonstrate that mass is conserved in a chemical reaction
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A Layered Approach to Scientific Models
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Capitalizing on Student Misconceptions
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Teacher Spotlight: Wendy Frazier
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Lesson Plan |
The purpose of this assessment probe is to comprehensively elicit students’ ideas about the relationship between force and motion. The list of possible answers includes several distracters that are based on learning…
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Developing the Next Generation of Elementary Science Teachers
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This article describes how science educators at a large southeastern university developed specialized science training for elementary preservice teachers (EPSTs) by creating a combination of discipline-specific science…
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Where Do Fossil Fuels Come From?
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Versatile 3D Printed Colorimetry Toolkits
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Crosscutting Concepts as Productive Ways of Thinking
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Tips and techniques for creative teaching
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Discovering the Formation of Sound
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