Mon, Jan 22, 2018 2:39 PM in Gravity
Page Keeley has a couple of good assessments to see what students are thinking about gravity:
Experiencing Gravity
Talking about Gravity
Tower Drop
Check them out!
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Tue, Jan 17, 2017 7:01 AM in Avoiding Misconceptions in Science Education
Great point! I see these misconception with my United States map every year with my 5th grade students. Students have no conception of the size of Greenland and Antarctica until we learn about the Mercator projection and the distortion of going from a round globe to a flat map. When I show them globe in relation to the flat map it's a big aha moment. They were looking at the map in all the clas...
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Wed, Aug 06, 2014 2:53 PM in Connecting Literacy and Science with NGSS and Common Core
Hi Ted,
Discourse for sure will be the most challenging to integrate in the science classroom due to the time factor in the elementary schools. Good discourse takes time. Discourse in Science will be my 3rd break out session and I'm looking forward to it!
Eileen
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