The March 2017 issue of The Science Teacher features “The future of energy: Having students compare the effects of different energy sources on the environment,” an article on the High-Adventure…
…teaching, and does not reflect what students are ultimately expected to be able to do with their knowledge. Read the article Watch a video about the Teaching Teamwork project. https://www.youtube.com/embed/wur7nZByDXw…
…AM, JW Marriott Los Angeles at L.A. LIVE, Platinum Ballroom Salon I Delve into how you can use the new STEM community of www.wikiwatershed.org featuring online GIS modeling, DIY environmental sensors, scientific data…
…in understanding the natural world. Read the full article (posted with permission of Science Scope). Watch a video about the Building Models project, featuring Dan Damelin and Joe Krajcik. https://www.youtube.com/embed/BErVRfttHic…
…some heliostats in the summer and winter. The heat map on each reflector is based on the reflected portion of the direct solar radiation onto a 8 x 8 grid…
…billion. Globally, CSP power stations will generate 4,705 MW this year. CSP stations do not need to be only large-scale. Small-scale CSP stations (below 1 MW, on-grid or off-grid) may…
…exploring these questions by investigating the effects of technology-enhanced formative assessments on student construction of scientific arguments. Figure 1. The HASBot robot provides automated, non-judgmental feedback to students’ written responses….
…water authorities: water scarcity and hardness in Arizona’s arid climate, animal waste and agrochemical pollution in Pennsylvania’s farming communities, and road runoff and wastewater management in the densely populated urban…
Programmable thermostats allow Energy3D to study the effects of human behavior on home energy use Blog Post
Figure 1 Energy3D Version 5.1 has incorporated a new feature: programmable thermostats (Figure 1). This allows users to add a programmable thermostat to each building in the design. Such a…
…imaging Most IR cameras are sensitive enough to pick up a temperature difference of 0.1°C or less. This sensitivity makes it possible to detect certain effects from the molecular world….