…module, which is now freely available to the public. The online five-activity module, designed for middle and high school Earth science classrooms, scaffolds students’ ability to make connections between rock…
…and land deformation models, plot GPS data, and run Monte Carlo simulations to predict risk. The model’s design—linking the block code and the visual representations of scientific phenomena—is the key…
…this curious volume of lore,” in search of datasets that could be used to further student understanding of the plight of Japanese American internees during World War II. It’s an…
…effect here was also surprising but much more welcomed news. We then looked to teacher feedback to corroborate these findings. When asked about their students’ curiosity about rocks during the…
Orrin Murray is a principal researcher at American Institutes for Research and external evaluator for our TecRocks project. We all come into the world primed to wonder. Curiosity is the…
Teachers have used our interactive online activities for many years with great success. However, the same request has come up time and time again: “Is there any way that students…
…pursuing a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Virginia’s School of Education. “I’m really lucky,” she says, “because the same thing excites me today that excited me…
…Finzer, we are modernizing CODAP, reengineering its underlying source code from the ground up. With new web application development tools, CODAP will be a fully open, flexible, and customizable online…
…misconstruing the nature of data for learners, traditional school science laboratory investigations overly constrain students’ agency in data production. Environmental science Environmental issues made the headlines this year from natural…
…we hope this map will teach The TecRocks project has developed a new online module that weaves rock formation and plate tectonics together such that teachers and students can approach…