The High-Adventure Science modules, first written in 2011-2013, are each based on a big unanswered question in Earth/environmental science. These six modules include interactive computer-based systems models and real-world data…
…drought have desiccated trees, shrubs, and grasses and transformed the western United States into a tinderbox. Air Quality Index and active fires in the western United States. https://fire.airnow.gov/ Today’s students…
…playing out in classrooms and homes around the world. From supporting novel investigation to opening up modeling and data exploration, technology makes sense-making possible in ever more powerful ways. New…
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…to simulate the interaction of liquids and gases with surfaces defined by boundary conditions. Today, almost every branch of engineering rely on CFD simulations for conceptual design and product design….
…of a computer screen is the natural boundary between the virtual world and the physical world and is, therefore, an intuitive user interface for certain human-computer interactions. Compared with other…
…text as data. College-aged students were asked to identify features useful for sorting headlines into clickbait and news. The findings? Text provides a compelling example of unstructured data that can…
…During the Eocene, when temperature differences were not as large between the poles and the midlatitudes, ocean currents were weaker than they are today. Today, the ACC is considered the…
…software such as computer-aided design tools. We envision a future in which every classroom would be powered by informatics and infographics such as VPA to support day-to-day learning and teaching…
…a park ecosystem, for example, or carbon dioxide, acidity of the water, and shellfish health, and so on. Most critical issues facing us today can be modeled as a complex…