…that it is not instruction that costs less in online high schools. Instead, online schools do not need to pay for building construction, meals, transportation, libraries, theaters, art rooms, science…
…textbook development cycle, a large, skilled team would be needed: content experts who were classroom savvy, software wizards, assessment statisticians, curriculum designers, and university researchers. Developing comprehensive electronic materials for…
…doesn’t sound like a lot, but to put it in perspective, that’s roughly the same amount of sea level rise caused by melting glaciers and icecaps outside of Greenland and…
…and its orbiting moon, along with some calculation using Kepler’s Laws of Motion, scientists will be able to determine the mass of distant stars. In essence, they’re just measuring the…
…it possible to grow food crops in the nutrient-poor rainforest soil. University Photography: Johannes Lehmann holds biochar, left, and the biomass from which it was created In addition, burning the…
From xkcd: http://www.xkcd.com/164/ Science is about facts and evidence. There is a lot of evidence that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. You can explore with our models how carbon…
From xkcd: http://www.xkcd.com/402/ The permafrost line is shifting. It may be slow by tornado-chasing standards, but it’s shifting. A study earlier this year from Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada…
Yes–if you’re a coral. Biologist Brent Constantz has formed a company to sequester carbon dioxide just as corals in the ocean do. The strategy is simple–combine carbon dioxide, water, and…
…she tried were too hot, too big, and too hard. Her second choices were too cold, too big, and too soft. Her third choices were all “just right.” The story…
…accessibility for certain subsets of the population, items based on UDL principles help all people. In science software, UDL features—such as textto- speech, glossaries, coaches, scaffolding, Smart Graphs* and Smart…