This book is loaded with classroom-friendly tools to pinpoint what your students know (or think they know) so you can adjust your teaching accordingly. At the book's heart are 25 "probes." These brief, easily administered activities will reveal your students' thinking on 44 core science topics, grouped by light, sound, matter, gravity, heat and temperature, life science, and Earth and space science.

Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Vol. 1: 25 Formative Assessment Probes

Science & Math

Keeley, Page

Eberle, Francis

Farrin, Lynn

Science for Kids

Natl Science Teachers Assn

If Hollywood were filming this sequel, the studio would call it Probes 2: More Battles Against Misunderstandings. Like the blockbuster that came before it, Volume 2 of Uncovering Student Ideas in Science will reveal the surprising misconceptions students bring to the classroom so you can adjust your teaching to replace those ideas with a sound understanding of science. The field-tested features from Volume 1 are all here. The 25 new probes are short, easy-to-administer activities designed to determine what students at every grade level know (or think they know) about core science topics. The probes come all ready to reproduce. Accompanying teacher materials explain science content, note links to national standards, and suggest grade-appropriate ways to present material so students will learn it accurately. But where Volume 1 emphasized physical science, Volume 2 covers more life science and Earth and space science probes. New topic areas include forms of matter, changes in matter, living things and life processes, rocks and landforms, the day/night cycle, and objects in the night sky. Volume 2 also suggests ways to embed the probes throughout the course of your instruction, not just when starting a unit or topic.

Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 2: 25 More Formative Assessment Probes

NSTA

"This book offers teacher-friendly formative assessment probes to help you reveal preconceptions and misunderstandings that students (and maybe even you) hold. But instead of traditional science disciplines, this book's 32 probes focus on the disciplinary content of engineering and technology, engineering practices, and connections to crosscutting concepts. The probes are organized into four sections that explore what technology and engineering are, how to define problems, and how to design and test solutions. Each section includes a matrix of key ideas and the suggested grade level for each probe. All probes are short, easy to administer, and available in both English and Spanish. You can use them to uncover students' beliefs about everything from the purpose of technology to who can become an engineer to how an engineering design process works"--

Uncovering Student Ideas About Engineering and Technology: 32 New Formative Assessment Probes

Children's Books

This is the newest book in the bestselling Uncovering Student Ideas in Science series. Like the first edition of volume 1, this book helps pinpoint what your students know (or think they know) so you can monitor their learning and adjust your teaching accordingly. Loaded with classroom-friendly features you can use immediately, the book includes 25 probes brief, easily administered formative assessments designed to understand your students thinking about 60 core science concepts. All probes in this new edition are provided in both Spanish and English. The detailed Teacher Notes that accompany each probe have been updated to include current research summaries, connections to A Framework for K 12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards, new instructional suggestions, and related NSTA resources. These teacher materials also explain science content, present developmental considerations, and suggest instructional approaches for elementary, middle, and high school students. Other books may discuss students general misconceptions about scientific ideas. Only this one provides single, reproducible sheets you can use to determine students thinking about, for example, Moon phases, conservation of matter, reflection, chemical change, and cells. All probes have been field-tested with hundreds of students across multiple grade levels, so they re proven effective for helping your students reveal, reexamine, and further develop their understanding of science concepts.

Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 1: 25 Formative Assessment Probes

Have you been wanting to probe your students thinking about major concepts in matter and energy? Have you been wishing for formative assessment tools in both English and Spanish? Then this is the book you ve been waiting for. Like the other 10 books in the bestselling Uncovering Student Ideas in Science series, Uncovering Student Ideas in Physical Science, Volume 3 does the following: Presents engaging questions, also known as formative assessment probes. The 32 probes in this book are designed to uncover what students know or think they know about the concept of matter and particle model of matter; properties of matter; classifying matter, chemical properties, and chemical reactions; and nuclear processes and energy. The probes will help you uncover students existing beliefs about everything from a particle model of matter to ways of describing energy. Offers field-tested teacher materials that provide the best answers along with distracters designed to reveal conceptual misunderstandings that students commonly hold. Since the content is explained in clear, everyday language, teachers can improve their own understanding of the science they teach. Is convenient and saves you time. The probes are short, easy-to-administer activities for speakers of both English and Spanish that come ready to reproduce. In addition to explaining the science content, the teacher materials include connections to A Framework for K 12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards, provide summaries of the research on students ideas, and suggest grade-appropriate instructional methods for addressing students ideas. Uncovering Student Ideas in Physical Science, Volume 3 has the potential to help you transform your teaching. As the authors write in the book s introduction, When teachers take the time to uncover [existing] ideas, understand where they came from, and make instructional decisions that will help students give up their strongly held ideas in favor of scientific ways of thinking, they are taking an important first step in teaching for conceptual understanding.

Uncovering Student Ideas in Physical Science, Volume 3: 32 New Matter and Energy Formative Assessment Probes

“Leave no alternative science idea unchallenged!” could be the slogan of this second edition of Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 2. Like the others in the bestselling series, this book is loaded with classroom\-friendly features to pinpoint what your students know (or think they know) so you can adjust your teaching accordingly.\nAt the book’s heart are 25 “probes” to use before you start a topic or unit. These short, easily administered formative assessments will determine your students’ thinking on core science concepts in physical science, life science, and Earth and space science. Each section includes a matrix of key concepts and the suggested grade level for each probe. In this new second edition, the probes appear in both English and Spanish. In addition, each probe links to related disciplinary core ideas from A Framework for K–12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards.\nThe teacher\-friendly features are updated too. The accompanying Teacher Notes sections include current research summaries, revised instructional suggestions, and new NSTA resources. As before, these teacher materials also explain science content, present developmental considerations, and suggest instructional approaches for elementary, middle, and high school students.\nOther books discuss students’ general misconceptions. Only this one provides reproducible pages you can use to challenge student thinking on everything from characteristic properties of matter to habitat change to objects in the sky. Each probe―field\-tested across multiple grade levels―can be used at any point in an instructional cycle to help your students reveal, re\-examine, and further develop their understanding of science concepts. Rather than assessments of learning, think of these probes as assessments for learning.

Uncovering Student Ideas in Life Science, Volume 2: 30 New Formative Assessment Probes

Biological Sciences

Since publication of Volume 1 of this series, thousands of teachers have been using these innovative classroom tools to improve student learning in science. Following in the footsteps of the first two volumes, this new book provides short, easy-to-administer probes that help teachers determine what misconceptions students bring to the classroom about the nature of science and about physical, life, Earth, and space sciences. This volume is an invaluable resource for classroom teachers, preservice teachers, professional developers, and college science and preservice faculty.

Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 3: Another 25 Formative Assessment Probes

Astronomy & Space Science

Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 4, offers 25 more formative assessment probes to help reveal students' preconceptions of fundamental concepts in science.

Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 4: 25 New Formative Assessment Probes

Tugel, Joyce

Nationally known science educator Page Keeley―principal author of the hugely popular, four-volume NSTA Press series Uncovering Students Ideas in Science―has teamed up with physicist and science educator Rand Harrington to write this first volume in their new series on physical science. They begin with one of the most challenging topics in physical science: force and motion. The 45 assessment probes in this book enable teachers to find out what students really think about key ideas in force and motion. The Teacher Notes, which can be used before and after administering the probe, provide background information on <ul>
<li>the purpose of the probe; 
</li> <li>related concepts; </li> <li>an explanation―for the teacher―of the force and motion idea being taught; 
</li> <li>related ideas in Benchmarks for Science Literacy and the National Science Education Standards;</li> <li>research on typical student misconceptions related to the force and motion concept; and</li> <li>suggestions for instruction and assessment.</li> </ul>
The book specifies grade spans―K-4, 5–8, 9–12―for each probe, based on state and national standards, and suggests ways to adapt a probe for a different grade span or context.

Uncovering Student Ideas in Physical Science, Volume 1: 45 New Force and Motion Assessment Probes

Physics

Corwin

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Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Vol. 1: 25 Formative Assessment Probes

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Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 1: 25 Formative Assessment Probes

Uncovering Student Ideas in Physical Science, Volume 3: 32 New Matter and Energy Formative Assessment Probes

Uncovering Student Ideas in Science, Volume 2: 25 More Formative Assessment Probes

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Uncovering Student Ideas in Physical Science, Volume 1: 45 New Force and Motion Assessment Probes