…approach. SmartGraphs provide instructional hints and scaffolding to help students make sense of graphs. In the SmartGraphs activity “Describing Velocity,” students learn to connect position-time and velocity-time graphs. They analyze…
People like to avoid large temperature swings in buildings because it’s more comfortable. The heat capacity of the building is useful in reducing swings, especially in solar houses where the…
…a single, noisy 10-year period is cherry picking, and does not provide reliable information about the presence or absence of human effects on climate,” said Benjamin Santer, a climate scientist…
…inequitable funding; and provide massive in-service programs. But the federal government does not have sufficient resources to supplement all STEM teacher salaries so the best are not lured into business…
…But first, a quick note about terminology. NOAA defines an extreme event “as a time and place in which weather, climate, or environmental conditions—such as temperature, precipitation, drought, or flooding—rank…
…one at a time. They made at least four runs of the same duration, changing just one variable each run and summarizing each series with four graphs showing the effect…
…family on vacation in Mexico. One way Mason gets his 9th grade physical science and 10th grade chemistry students interested in science is through the Interactions project, which engages students…
…online course shed light on the effects of these features on guiding students to design cost‐effective solar power systems. Xie, C., Schimpf, C., Chao, J. Nourian, S., & Massicotte, J….
…learning trajectories over a significant period of time. Sophisticated data mining and machine learning techniques originally developed for scientific and business applications provide such solutions. In this research project, approximately…
…model, analyze, test, and evaluate multiple solar power designs for performance. Does the tilt of solar panels affect energy output? Does roof structure impede performance? What are the budget constraints?…