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Formative Assessment Probes: Embedding Formative Assessment Into the 5E Instructional Model
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue includes an illustrative example of how formative assessment probes and formative assessment classroom techniques can be embedded into a sequence of 5E lessons target...
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Teaching Teachers: Assessing Students as Scientists
This column enhances the repertoire of preservice and inservice teachers. Supporting teachers in assessing students’ scientific thinking....
NSTA Press Book
Amusement Park of the Future, Grade 6: STEM Road Map for Middle School
What if you could challenge your sixth graders to design an amusement park for children of tomorrow to safely enjoy? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Amusement Park of the Future outlines a journey that will stee...
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Formative Assessment Probes: Vocabulary in Context: What Is an Amphibian?
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue explores what characteristics make an amphibian....
Journal Article
Methods and Strategies: Time to Change
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue discusses embedding literacy into the 5E while addressing the principles of the Next Generation Science Standards....
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Formative Assessment Probes: Uncovering Young Children’s Concept of a Plant
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month’s issue uses the “Is It a Plant?” formative assessment probe, which was developed to elicit primary students’ initial ideas about plants and the characteristics they us...
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Methods and Strategies: Formative Assessment Practices to Support Students who Struggle in Science
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue highlights how formative assessment activities support instructional shifts, of three Indiana Science Initiative (ISI) teachers....