…18–27. 6. Teaching in a world of messy data Learners of all ages must be able to understand and work with data effectively, and opportunities must be provided equitably to…
…also found specific challenges students encountered when evaluating and revising models, including epistemological barriers to using real-world data for model revision. Helping students compare their model output to real-world data…
…— really a good idea today when the entire house is heated by a modern distributed heating system? In terms of energy efficiency, the advice from science is that it…
I checked our Web log today and the statistics showed that the Molecular Workbench software (Java version) has been downloaded for 1,014,439 times since 2005. This number doesn’t include those…
…sign up today! If you are interested in tracking Dorian and future hurricanes, we suggest checking out the resources at Weather Underground. We would like to thank our advisor, Jeff…
…stewardship of the Earth.” Our free online resources include curriculum modules with interactive computational models that explore topics such as climate change, plate tectonics, and natural hazards. Try them today!…
…of what the story of the Internet’ birth tells us. In the same way, it’s what we also see playing out in educational technology today. Let’s look closely as we…
…back paleoclimatic conditions that existed thousands of years ago, when many of today’s deserts were wet.” Previously, climate research has focused on Earth’s polar regions and forests. It is important…
Today’s Wall Street Journal ran a story about using beavers to raise the water table and rehabilitate natural areas. Beavers? How can beavers do this? Photo by Walter Siegmund Beaver…
…law (P1/T1=P2/T2), and Avogadro’s law (V1/n1=V2/n2). And, of course, all of these relationships together make up the Ideal Gas Law (PV=nRT). Explore gas laws today with some HTML5 molecular models!…