Where Would It Fall?

by: Page Keeley and Joyce Tugel

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students' ideas about the distribution of land, oceans, freshwater, and ice. The probe is designed to find out whether students realize that most of the Earth is covered by oceans.

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