…to develop new geodynamic plate tectonic modeling software for middle school students. The software is designed to allow students to observe and describe the formation of surface geologic features in…
…non-professional scientists is not new. For hundreds of years, naturalists, collectors, diarists, and record keepers of all manner, including those who lacked formal scientific training and credentials, have shaped our…
…approaching a problem, they are less likely to fixate on one type of model. We are planning a new round of research in early 2019 with students in two high…
…another and digs in, stacking, filtering, creating graph after graph, hot on the trail of unseen patterns and new insights. This is an increasingly common scenario. As complex datasets begin…
…was designed to bring individuals to the Concord Consortium to spark new ideas, tinker with novel technologies, cultivate outside perspectives, and provide opportunities for reflection on our work. Many visitors,…
…code on GitHub. And although he was new to the code base underlying the Seismic Explorer software, which displays earthquakes and volcanoes worldwide using real-time data from the USGS, he…
…new two-year project builds off an earlier project by Principal Investigators Sherry Hsi and Michael Eisenberg, which prototyped several Paper Mechatronics design projects, organized activity formats, and piloted the various…
…educational technology for STEM teaching and learning. The fellowship is intended to bring individuals to the Concord Consortium to spark new ideas, tinker with novel technologies, cultivate outside perspectives, and…
…a dozen discoveries await in the next chart or graph. As Isaac Asimov once reminded us, “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries,…
…the vast, thick layers that make up Earth’s surface. In activity 2, Eruptions everywhere, students use two new embedded interactives to examine locations where new rocks form on Earth and…