…and to wake me up. Of course, our family point-and-shoot camera and car GPS device are also starting to gather dust at a surprising rate. This is no new revelation,…
…are sobering, such as data from April 2014 showing that only one in three Americans discusses global warming with family and friends even occasionally. One of the many reasons this…
…we’ve got you covered. Want to help students see Earth science as a lab science? Add more data science activities to your high school classes? Scaffold students to conduct their…
…– 12:00 PM, America’s Center, Room 242 Find out how students can use computational thinking skills to manipulate computational weather models/simulations, engage in hands-on experimentation, and employ scientific language to…
…Design Studio (MODS) can help. It provides teachers and students with artfully chosen design heuristics that inspire creative problem-solving. The challenge is how to get the right heuristic to the…
…comprehensive range of topics that some courses introduce more vocabulary than foreign language courses. In the rush to cover all the required topics, few students learn real science, just the…
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…Science team designed new digital tools to help make the invisible visible and link the visualizations directly to children’s tangible perceptions of hot and cold. IR cameras and IR thermometers….
…http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1508924 (PDF) Cohoon, J. M., & Chao, J. (2009). Sexism: Toxic to women’s persistence in CSE doctoral programs. Computing Research News, 21(1). Retrieved February 9, 2009, from http://www.cra.org/CRN/articles/jan09/cohoon_on_sexism.html. Yang, Z….
…no easy feat. But working in these harsh conditions is the only way that scientists might be able to understand what Earth’s climate was like 1.5 million years ago. http://www.npr.org/2011/03/04/134229249/its-bottoms-up-for-antarctic-ice-sheets…