Uncovering Student Ideas in Astronomy: 45 New Formative Assessment Probes (Uncovering Student Ideas in Science)

What do your students know or think they know about what causes night and day, why days are shorter in winter, and how to tell a planet from a star? Find out with these 45 new assessment probes, which provide situations that will pique your students interest while helping you understand how your students think about key ideas related to the universe and how it operates. The book is organized into five sections: the Nature of Planet Earth; the Sun-Earth System; Modeling the Moon; Dynamic Solar System; and Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe.