Fig. 1: Swirling flows form between two opposite fans. A new type of object, “fan”, has been added to Energy2D to create and control fluid flows. This fan replaces the…
…lost energy, which is often converted into thermal energy that spreads out through heat transfer. With the new multiphysics modeling capabilities, the Energy2D software can show the complete picture of…
…traces left by fireballs of different sizes. Figure 3: Thermophoresis (Soret’s effect) With this new capacity, we can simulate phenomena such as thermophoresis, in which the different particle types in…
…relied on eliciting, analyzing, and interpreting students’ constructed responses to assessment questions. New types of data may engender new opportunities for improving the validity and reliability of educational measurements. In…
…— they must consider the sun path in four seasons and the existing buildings in the neighborhood as the design constraints to optimize solar penetration to the new buildings and…
…address these issues, two new NSF-funded projects, GeniGUIDE and GeniConnect, are investigating the use of real-time student tracking, data analytics, and scaffolding with an intelligent tutoring system to assist teachers…
…of the creation of a new species—a discovery that Darwin called the “beautiful proof” for natural selection. Johannes Kepler was the first to understand that the planets move in elliptical…
Lights, camera, action: A video that introduces the NGSS practice of scientific argumentation Blog Post
…Likert scale uncertainty rating, and uncertainty rationale. In this introductory activity, students learn about the components of a good explanation. Even with this new activity, some students still struggled, so…
…course work, they used our Geniverse software to study dragon genetics and develop new genes, mutant alleles, and phenotypes based on investigations of scientific literature. They imagined the genotypic and…
…of creating hierarchical data structures (#9), automated analysis of collaborative problem solving in electronics (#8), and more. 1. New systems modeling tool supports students The NGSS identify systems and system…