…at helping students make these critical connections. The Cumulative Learning using Embedded Assessment Results (CLEAR) project, funded by the National Science Foundation, is studying the effects of these tools on…
…big picture now simply does not mean it does not exist. My background as a computational physicist gave me some hints of how things might develop. Parallel computing is essential…
…updates in documents in real time. To connect users we store their files in Firebase, a real-time, NoSQL cloud database, which allows users in a class to access the same…
The year 2009 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species in which he famously described for the first time his theory of evolution…
It’s an exciting time for science. Knowledge in long-standing fields such as biology is increasing at exponential rates. Significant new discoveries are being unearthed. At the same time, traditional science…
…hold additional information about the time associated with the event. Tilting and rotating the space-time cube reveals this time coordinate and makes it possible to explore the data from multiple…
…code on the left and students witness the land surface deformation on the right, corresponding to values they input as the plates move over time. In this example, the student…
…composition), and to consider the hazards and risks related to these eruptions. At the same time the Taal Volcano began erupting, our first cohort of GeoCode teachers was piloting our…
…me up at night, as I read predictions of global overpopulation and pondered math puzzles about rice grains multiplying on chessboards. Exponential functions are truly insidious, plodding along practically unnoticed…
…Our goal is to develop a geodynamic model showing multiple interacting plates so students can observe interactions that are occurring at different places at the same time. After all, if…