…the Concord Consortium, BSCS Science Learning, the Gulf of Maine Research Institute, TERC, National Geographic Education, Nexmap, Public Lab, iNaturalist, YR Media, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and others dove deep…
…collaborative work on research questions, data collection, and analysis of their moth trap catches. Users can build decks of “data cards” to represent their moths, adding categories (e.g., color, size,…
…to use any mathematics; all calculations are done “under the hood.”) To begin, the computer assesses the current “state” of the system, looking for and recording the current values in…
…resources. These learning resources are located in schools, at home, and in relationships with the community (libraries, community centers, museums, clubs, places of worship, and local businesses). With the dangers…
…they start, you wonder. Where do you start, if you’re in similar position? Based on the authors’ experience helping to develop hundreds of online courses, Essential Elements: Prepare, Design, and…
…need. Because of this they have potential to be popular outside of our organization. We do have some partial successes with spin-offs like this. MozSwing – mostly abandoned, though it…
…it was not perfectly sealed. Had students had a sensitive air speed meter, they would have observed a small but appreciable jet stream coming out from the tip (would they?),…
National Science Foundation funds citizen science project to crowdsource an infrared street view Blog Post
…for educational and research purposes are permitted by school leaders, town officials, and property owners. From a broader perspective, the Infrared Street View program could serve as a pilot test…
…it runs very fast — only 10 seconds or so are needed to reach the thermal equilibrium. This allows you to test various conditions rapidly, e.g., changing the initial temperature…
Personal thermal vision could turn millions of students into the cleantech workforce of today Blog Post
So we have signed the Paris Agreement and cheered about it. Now what? More than a year ago, I wrote a proposal to the National Science Foundation to test the…