What caused the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)? About 56 million years ago, Earth’s temperature was a lot warmer than it is today–as much as 21°F higher than today (see the…
…in science labs worldwide. Today, five major global companies produce probeware specifically designed for education, and a million students use educational probes and sensors every year. Online Learning Though it’s…
…interactive online environment that help high school students apply mathematical concepts and skills such as writing equations and reading and understanding charts to solve real-world problems. Students explore open-ended questions…
…Wikipedia, augmented reality is an interactive experience of a real-world environment whereby the objects in the real world are “augmented” by computed information. Typically, AR is implemented with a mobile…
…yet multi-featured tools for gathering and analyzing data to figure out what stories their moth data are telling them. Figure 1. The MothEd activity in CLUE guides students through five…
…World Wide Web contained only a few thousand sites and the concept of ubiquitous powerful computers was barely more than a thought experiment. Although change is the only true constant…
…about the stars to fully describe the planets. Just as in all scientific fields, the latest breakthrough discoveries are always built on a strong foundation of basic research. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110110151155.htm http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/01/110110-nasa-kepler-10b-new-planet-found-rocky-science-space/…
When the Concord Consortium was founded in 1994, Google and YouTube didn’t exist and Amazon was in its infancy.* Today, there are billions of searchable web pages and YouTube videos….
Twenty-five middle school teachers from Berkeley, Oakland, and the surrounding areas of northern California recently met online as part of a virtual professional learning workshop called “Telling Data Stories: Scientific…
…didn’t post about it on the date we first heard the news, it seems that the date of the memorial service is a fitting date to share our internal commemoration….