Category: 2012
[Editor’s note: Vaibhav Ahlawat was a Google Summer of Code 2012 student at the Concord Consortium.] At any time, the Concord Consortium runs a number of small research projects and large scale-up projects, but in the past we built each system separately and each required a separate login. Want to teach your fourth graders about […]
Looking for free tools to teach engineering design in K-12 classrooms? We are pleased to announce that Energy3D Version 1.0 is now available for free download at http://energy.concord.org/energy3d. Energy3D is a computer-aided design and fabrication to…
MOOCs are all the rage. However, don’t worry if you don’t recognize the acronym. It popped up only last fall, when Stanford offered—free of charge—a graduate-level course in artificial intelligence. Over 160,000 students from 190 countries signed up, defining what is quickly becoming a new genre in online education: the Massive Open Online Course or MOOC.
What might the climate of the future be like? Students explore this question in the High-Adventure Science curriculum unit “Modeling Earth’s Climate.” And in the October issue of The Science Teacher, Amy Pallant, Hee-Sun Lee, and Sarah Pryputniewicz describe the systems approach to the curriculum.
At the heart of Molecular Workbench’s modeling of atomic interactions is a profoundly important but fundamentally simple concept: At close distances, atoms attract each other until they get so close that they repel. Here’s a demo of that concept: two atoms interacting. Drag the green atom to various locations near and far from the purple […]
Cynthia McIntyre, Trudi Lord and Paul Horwitz describe the Evolution Readiness curriculum in the October issue of Science & Children, which focuses on hard-to-teach concepts. The computer-based and hands-on activities help fourth grade students learn the big ideas of evolution.
A hypothetical nano sorting machine. The International Journal of Engineering Education published our paper “A Visual Approach to Nanotechnology Education.” The paper presents a systematic approach based on scientific visualization to teaching and learning concepts in nanoscience and nanotechnology. Five types of mathematical models are used to generate visual, interactive simulations that provide a powerful […]
Energy2D, an open-source, interactive energy simulation tool, is now available for free download. Install the first stable version of Energy2D as a desktop app and create high-quality simulations that run in Web browsers for heat transfer, fluid dynamics, geoscience and more.
Natural user interfaces (NUIs) are the third generation of user interface for computers, after command line interfaces and graphical user interfaces. A NUI uses natural elements or natural interactions (such as voice or gestures) to control a computer …
ThermoregulationProject Lead The Way (PLTW) is the leading provider of rigorous and innovative Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education curricular programs used in middle and high schools across the US. The PLTW Pathway To Eng…