Category: News
Amy Pallant, Sarah Pryputniewicz, and Hee-Sun Lee describe the High-Adventure Science investigations in the March issue of The Science Teacher. The investigations stimulate students to think critically in order to explore the evidence and discuss the issues of certainty with the models and data. High-Adventure Science has obtained impressive learning results where students showed significant improvement in their understanding of science content and argumentation skills.
If you’re heading to San Francisco for the CyTSE conference on March 8 and 9, look for Concord Consortium staff at the following presentations: Serious Games for STEM Learning, Learning From and With Data, The Molecular Workbench, Innovative Technology in Science Inquiry, and Inquiry in the Digital Age – Enhancing Science Learning using Computer Models.
The Concord Consortium will be attending and presenting at the NSTA conference in March 2011. We look forward to seeing you at our sessions. Add the following sessions to your conference schedule.
The Concord Consortium’s Paul Horwitz and Evolution Readiness advisory board member Louise Mead of the BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action discuss “the evolution of teaching evolution“ in a February 7 article originally published in the Hechinger Report.
Mashable.com included the Concord Consortium’s free, open source software on it’s in its December 16th list of favorite online resources for science teachers.
An interview with Concord Consortium senior scientist and former Congressional fellow Paul Horwitz is featured on LiveScience. Paul discusses the societal benefits of his work, what’s needed to be an effective researcher, his favorite childhood experiment and the best piece of advice he ever received.
Mashable.com features the Concord Consortium’s projects as some of their 8 Ways Technology is Improving Education
Evolution Readiness is featured in Education Week’s November 16 article “Efforts to Improve Evolution Teaching Bearing Fruit”.
The new issue of @Concord includes articles on the PCAST report, fourth grade students learning about evolution, quantum chemistry activities, IR imaging technology, UDL, and more.
Lost in Lexicon: An Adventure in Words and Numbers is a fantasy adventure for students in grades 5-8, written by Concord Consortium board member, physician, and education reformer Pendred Noyce. In this first book in the Adventures in Lexicon series, cousins Ivan and Daphne travel through a magical land of words and numbers in search of the lost children of Lexicon, who have been lured away by mysterious lights in the sky.