…delighted to announce two Tinker Fellows in 2022. Heather Barker will create data exploration activities for students from middle grades through introductory statistics college courses that include datasets around social…
…countries. As these waves were sent out, tephra began falling down on the nearby island of Tonga. Figure 1. The tephra cloud from the January 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption captured…
…and impacts also uncertain. Based on these revisions, we have also modified some of the items in the pre- and post-tests. Second, additional discussion prompts have been added to the…
…to develop automated scoring models for students’ argumentation texts and to explore emerging patterns between students’ simulation interactions and argumentation scores. Lee, H.-S., Gweon, G.-H., Lord, T., Paessel, N., Pallant,…
…them and how they work!” In February 2022 we plan to offer another professional development workshop with a second group of middle school teachers. There’s lots of water in Oregon…
…lives and those of their communities. Halfway around the world, 20 students in Durham, North Carolina, also investigated data in an afterschool program in the spring of 2021. Data, they…
…the academic calendar. We’re delighted to announce that we have redesigned our STEM Resource Finder just in time for the 2021-22 school year. Our open educational resources expand and deepen…
…subsided. Between May 1 and 13, 2021, he worked alongside local scientists from the Seismic Research Centre of the University of West Indies to collect tephra fall samples, map the…
The rock cycle, presented in nearly every Earth science curriculum and textbook, is typically taught in the same way from one classroom to the next. Students are shown an image…
…on wildfires. Please check back prior to the start of the 2021-2022 school year. Visit the Exploring Earth Systems with Models hub page, or go directly to our Earth and…