…permit students to explore everything from the complex motion of objects to the intricate thermodynamics of chemical reactions. The instant feedback such devices provide allows student investigations to center on…
…student and show it in an unprecedentedly fine-grained timeline graph. A timeline graph may show how students went through different iterative steps while shaping their designs. For instance, did they…
…react in meaningful ways accordingly. Each sensor is attached to a physical object installed along the edge of the computer screen (see the illustration above). The temperature sensor is attached…
…finding that has emerged quickly is that teachers were very satisfied with the online activities. Based on more than 300 times using one of the activities, in 94% of instances…
Gas laws are generally taught in high school chemistry. Students learn that Boyle’s law, for instance, can be expressed as P1V1=P2V2, where P is pressure and V is volume. From…
…other. For instance, the activity models show sunlight interacting with the Earth and sky, but don’t explicitly show the sun or outer space. MySystem can bring these essential elements to…
…graph. These visual and textual hints make our SmartGraphs activities smart. Activities run directly in a modern Web browser using HTML5 (JavaScript). There is nothing to download or install. Most…
…instances in which MW is embedded in other software or run as an applet. And the number doesn’t include the 30+ employees of the Concord Consortium who could conceivably inflate…
…Ottawa, has been the primary developer since joining the project in 2010. The software is based on the open-source scene graph game engine, Ardor3D, which requires Java to be installed….
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…