…to improve the design of our online activities with accessibility in mind, focusing on aspects of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Through these and other efforts, we are attempting to…
…In November, six middle school teachers participated in a combination of online Zoom and local face-to-face professional development sessions, learning how to determine the health of a local stream or…
…professional development and tries to support K-5 teachers at Akers who have had little training in science. She searches online for ideas to integrate equity in science lessons, using resources…
…a number of our Earth and environmental science modules for use in online, hybrid, and in-person school settings. After early testing with a small group of teachers, we were determined…
…geologic datasets, most are limited to individual countries and focus on a scientific audience. Morrison combined three datasets to create a series of maps for our online curriculum module. The…
…overall temperature is affected by natural processes, such as La Niña and El Niño, as well as by human factors. From 1999 to 2008, Earth’s temperature was fairly steady, coming…
…watch videos, interact with online simulations, and build and revise dynamic, time-based models with our SageModeler systems modeling tool. In a new article in the March/April issue of The Science…
…over $6 billion dollars. Our GeoHazard project has designed and tested an online curriculum module to help middle and high school students investigate the risks and impacts of inland flooding….
In the WeatherX project, a collaboration involving EDC, Mount Washington Observatory, the University of Washington, and the Concord Consortium, we engage middle school students with weather data and weather science….
…with the online module. For example, students consider how prominent landforms such as the Andes Mountains in South America were created. Students are also asked to experiment with diverging plate…