Sitting at home in Birmingham, England, in 2009, Chris Hart made plans to move her family and her life to Boston. She had never even been to New England before,…
Chad’s Great American Eclipse Chase: Part 6—Partial eclipse viewing with and without eclipse glasses – DIY filters, other optical setups, and more Blog Post
…the partial phases will be four minutes and 17 seconds shorter.) If you’re interested in extensive detail on this, Stephen Wolfram’s highly comprehensive write-up at Wired.com on the history and…
Mashable.com included the Concord Consortium’s free, open source software on it’s in its December 16th list of favorite online resources for science teachers. View the full list on Mashable.com…
Chicago, IL April 16–20, 2015 Conference Website The 2015 AERA Annual Meeting theme – “Toward Justice: Culture, Language, and Heritage in Education Research and Praxis” – is a call to…
…the R programming language (Figure 2). Figure 2. Students create math models using the R programming language. In these projects, we’re creating computer interfaces to help students translate their ideas…
…and engineering disciplines require integrated computational literacy. The goal of the GeoCode project is to help high school students understand, construct, interpret, and revise computational visualizations so they can explain…
…products and help participants share their work with family and friends in ways that feel relevant and exciting.Media and messages should encourage personal expression alongside scientific evidence. Make a big…
…the challenge of developing models to help students learn about complex, interacting Earth systems that are too big to see in a lab. Ironically, when Amy first arrived at the…
…whole system. StarLogo combines a graphical drag-and-drop programming language with a 3D gaming interface in which students can manipulate variables and their values to determine how the variables behave in…
…customized using the GLSL language, which has very similar syntax to C. The Vertex Shader is responsible for transformations of geometry vertices. It’s great when dealing with the perspective and…