…amazing new employees in our Concord, MA, and Emeryville, CA, offices: Leslie Bondaryk, Guanhua Chen, Colin Dixon, Xudong Huang, David Love, Lynn Stephens, and Kenia Wiedemann. Want to join our…
From xkcd: http://xkcd.com/263/ Question: How can we trust ourselves (or scientists) to know the truth about anything? Answer: We look at the evidence. Scientists back up their claims with evidence….
…Model My Watershed Part I: What is a Watershed? Part II: Part II: Students Learn about Water . . . and Take Action Monday’s Lesson: Can you filter your water?…
…9. Six New Employees Sign On We welcomed six fabulous new employees in our Concord, MA, and Emeryville, CA, offices: Tom Farmer, Lisa Hardy, Eli Kosminsky, Andrea Krehbiel, Joyce Massicotte,…
…data Disciplinary Core Ideas: ESS3.D: Global Climate Change, ESS2.D: Weather and Climate Crosscutting Concepts: Systems and system models To uncover the big questions in Earth and environmental science, High-Adventure Science…
…the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in the California Mojave Desert, which drew $2.2 billion of investment, generates 392 megawatts (MW) — enough to power hundreds of thousands of homes. As…
…easy to model real-world hurricanes like Isaias, as well (Figure 1). Figure 1. The Hurricane Explorer model showing the path of Hurricane Isaias. Throughout the curriculum, students use the Hurricane…
…wonder?” This promotes discussion, reflection, connections, and forward-thinking, she says, “the cornerstone of NGSS three-dimensional learning.” Andrew Njaa is a physics teacher at Falmouth High School in Falmouth, ME. So…
…Figure 1 provides an example that suggests this possibility. This experiment, which concerns evaporation of water, cannot be simpler: Just pour some room-temperature water into a plastic cup, leave it…
CODAP videos help teachers and students with NGSS practice of Analyzing and Interpreting Data Blog Post
…on the Concord Consortium’s YouTube channel as a playlist. The topics are: Video 1 – Creating, saving, and sharing CODAP docs (2:35) Video 2 – Simple Formulas (2:58) Video 3…