…and they are guided to program computational models to represent variables and their relationships. For instance, students model how tephra disperses after volcanic eruptions. Like scientists, students estimate the risk…
…know what’s happening, especially with phenomena they can’t see for themselves. For instance, when I teach about land uses in my high school Earth science class, my students are often…
…but many teachers, curriculum authors, students, and others insist on this!) And it is — and always will be — free. CODAP runs in a browser and doesn’t require installation…
…We call this a static equilibrium model where the effects of independent variables are instantly carried through the model, resulting in a new equilibrium state. With this kind of model…
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…For instance, while blowing into a sensor, students saw the graph spike and were able to explain that it was the CO2 in their breath that caused the increase. She’s…
…The curriculum will include additional out-of-school activities to gather data, for instance by interviewing community members. The units will be situated in the community context as students (1) explore their…
…Earth. For instance, how well can students explain the formation of the Andes Mountains or the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in terms of the underlying entities of the tectonic plate system—the plates…
…on-screen controls. Moreover, graphs and controls “just work” when a property changes, for example, when a user adds cold atoms to a box, instantaneously changing an output that reports the…
…feedback (e.g., changing volume and pitch) to help students understand their movements—for instance, when they pull two molecules apart to explore ionic and covalent bonds. We also prototyped a simple…