======Documenting Initial Ideas with Diagnostic Question======

Diagnostic quesetionnaire asks students to record their current knowledge about the sun and moon by answering these questions:
  - Why does it get dark at night?
  - Why is it cold in the winter and hot in the summer?
  - Why does the moon seem to have different shapes at dinfferent times?
  - How would you define a "scientific explanation"?
  - How would you define "inquiry approaches to learning and teaching"?

or

Diagnostic questionnaire asks student to record their current knowledge about light:

How can you see the basketball?    
How can your classmates on the other side of the room see the basketball?

Explain with words and a sketch.

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(or both, depending upon the weather and time)