Formative Assessment Probes: Uncovering Representations of the Water Cycle

Journal Article | December 2017

This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue explores the effect of representations on children’s thinking about evaporation and the water cycle.

Sticking Together: A learning cycle investigation about water

Journal Article | October 2002

Science educators are consistently challenged to seek ways to help students make meaning of difficult and often abstract concepts. This learning cycle investigation was designed to serve this purpose on important…

Examining Language To Capture Scientific Understandings: The Case of the Water Cycle

Journal Article | March 2001

As teachers of science, we need to keep in mind that thought and language are intricately related. Linguistic approximations, errors, and misses may be useful windows into our children’s developing thoughts and…

Water Play Is Science

Journal Article | March 2022

What Is Happening to Our Water?

Journal Article | March 2022

Classroom-Scale Experiments in System-Scale Modeling With Application to the Global Cycle of Water and Energy

Journal Article | August 2018

Model the movement of energy through the water cycle.

Redesigning the Water Rocket: An Engineering-Design Cycle for Integrating Science and Engineering Practices and Nature of Science Learning

Journal Article | October 2014

Examine a variety of aerodynamic factors that affect the distance traveled by a projectile.