Note: This blog post was updated January 24, 2022, with new images, exemplar answers, explanations of items, and links to new teacher resource materials, including two High-Adventure Science modules that…
…new oceanic crust at divergent boundaries http://concord.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/continents-collide-1c-opt.mp4 Play the video to watch GEODE’s new 3D geodynamic model representing interacting plates on a modeled planet. The plates are modeled as rigid…
Global Researchers and Developers Connect at 2017 Data Science Education Technology Conference Blog Post
…the Concord Consortium’s first Data Science Education Technology conference. Senior researchers, educators, and scientists from as far as Nigeria and New Zealand convened at the David Brower Center in Berkeley,…
…Those who know earlier efforts may consider this initiative a new round to advance the idea. The main new things are: 1) our plan is based on crowdsourcing with potentially…
…tracing the envelope of the building, eliminating the need to set the dimension of each side numerically. Figures 1-3 demonstrate the result of this new feature using the Concord Consortium’s…
…plate tectonics around the driving question: “What will Earth look like in 500 million years?” This plate tectonics module represents a fundamentally new way to teach the topic, turning geosciences…
…be viewed as a progress of breaking through their own limitations and engendering new possibilities that could not have been achieved before. To do justice to the innovative community of…
…tantalizingly elusive. A fleeting glimpse opens the door to a new paradigm. A tiny deviation causes one to question all that has come before. As Isaac Asimov famously noted, “The…
…a multiple-choice question. (5) Multiple-choice questions are automatically scored and totaled. (Only questions with correct answers specified are included.) What’s new? The Class Dashboard contains several new features, many of…
…I was growing up and its message occupied my thoughts as I shoveled our New England driveway for the third time in just over a week. What was I doing,…