…time periods. We think that technology has the potential help to transform how geoscience is taught and understood. From the people who brought you High-Adventure Science comes the GEODE (Geological…
…web-based SageModeler system modeling tool and supporting materials to help teachers incorporate modeling, system thinking, and computational thinking in their classrooms. SageModeler model of an epidemic with predicted outcomes (graph)…
…called Global Climate Change at the Battle Creek Area Math and Science Center in Battle Creek, Michigan. Muhich and his colleague Scott Hanson use SageModeler to help students model systems…
…theory about plate motion that explains how past and present processes have shaped Earth’s continents and oceans. To help students begin to understand plate tectonics, the TecRocks project has developed…
…learning. With that in mind, the collaboration aims to help provide educators with new models and methods to help students succeed under the new standards. “What we have proposed to…
In a project sponsored by the Noyce Foundation, teachers at an innovative new high school will adopt and modify our probe- and model-based science activities. Schools for the Future Academy…
…can benefit. Inspiration from learn.knockoutjs.com Here at Concord I mostly do client-side web app development, and so recently I found myself surveying the new crop of client-side MVC libraries. I…
…about the stars to fully describe the planets. Just as in all scientific fields, the latest breakthrough discoveries are always built on a strong foundation of basic research. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110110151155.htm http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/01/110110-nasa-kepler-10b-new-planet-found-rocky-science-space/…
…Earth-like and have the ability to support life. You can explore the transit method–how the Kepler telescope detects planets–in our space investigation “Is there life outside of Earth?” http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110110151155.htm http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/01/110110-nasa-kepler-10b-new-planet-found-rocky-science-space/…
…He’s on target so far. “As teachers, I feel that we teach in Neverland,” he says. “It is the adults that are getting older while all the children remain in…