Integrating the Five Practices and Model-Based Inquiry to Facilitate Meaningful Science Discourse

Journal Article | September 2020

The Aurora Borealis

Journal Article | November 2020

Finding Team Clean

Journal Article | May 2020

Engineering Clean Water

Journal Article | May 2020

Shake A Bush

Journal Article | May 2020

Apple in the Dark

Journal Article | December 2018

A balloon that does not burn

Journal Article | September 2019

Using discrepant events to confront misconceptions

Talking About Forces

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit beginning ideas about forces. The probe is designed to reveal whether students generally identify forces as pushes and pulls.

Does It Have to Touch?

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit beginning ideas about types of forces. The probe is designed to reveal whether students recognize that forces can act both in direct contact with an object and at a…

Apple in a Plane

Lesson Plan | June 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about force related to the interaction between inanimate objects. The probe is designed to determine which forces students think act on an object at rest…

Spaceships

Lesson Plan | June 2021

This probe is designed to elicit students’ ideas about changing the direction of motion in the absence of air. Many students will have seen movies or television shows in which spaceships turn by banking or using wing…

Force and Motion Ideas

Lesson Plan | June 2021

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…

Is the Sun a Star?

Lesson Plan | July 2021

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the Sun and stars. The probe is designed to uncover students’ ideas about the nature of stars and their recognition that the Sun is an average star…