…learn that humans and fruit flies share a core set of genes comprising 60% of their genomes, and further, that 90% of mouse and human genes are similar to each…
Photo courtesy of USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. Students consider how plowing and planting affects erosion on hilly terrain. Everything is connected. That’s the single most important lesson about human…
…for presentation to the team and at professional conferences. Ethnographic and educational research TREET wants to understand what it takes to transform future research using remote human-robotic interactions. The ability…
Importance Clean water is vital to human existence, yet it is a resource that can no longer be taken for granted. Many areas of the United States now suffer persistent…
…Human cognition and the challenge of automated scoring Table 1. The four levels of difficulty of the three-resistor challenge. All levels require that team members achieve the desired goal voltage…
…learned to another target species (e.g., the mouse is a model species for human genetic disease). We’ve created an online learning environment that allows middle and high school students to…
…to be able to evaluate questions such as: How serious is the water challenge? In what ways do human actions affect water systems? How do we measure water quality?” Staudt…
The repeal of the Clean Power Plan and how to teach about energy choices and climate change Blog Post
…understand the impact of policy changes, it is important to understand the core science concepts and the role of human activity. With this latest decision by the EPA, there is…
…every human being must know to function in modern society.”* Thirteen years after this seminal article, computational thinking (CT) finally is making its way into K-12 classrooms, thanks in part…
…“It helps me figure out the stories I want to tell,” she adds. “There are so many topics about the human condition that haven’t been explored.” One fundamental human condition…