No Shadow

by: Page Keeley and Cary Sneider

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the Sun’s motion during the day. The probe is designed to reveal whether students know that the Sun is never directly overhead as viewed from the continental United States. (Hawaii is the only state where the Sun is sometimes overhead at noon.)

Grade Levels

Elementary High School Middle School

Topics

Assessment Astronomy Earth & Space Science Phenomena Three-Dimensional Learning

Details

Type Book ChapterPub Date 3/23/2012Stock # PB307X_8

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Susan German (Hallsville, MO)
Susan German (Hallsville, MO)

The chapter is missing the probe

I know Keeley's work very well and am assuming the probe that goes with chapter is very good. Not the author's fault that NSTA missed the probe in the post of the pages in this chapter. ... See More

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