…make hand-powered mechanisms, participants used FoldMecha software to visualize the movement of parts. (FoldMecha generates a pdf file that can be used to cut parts on a laser cutter.) Participants…
…in a House,” students use Energy2D models to answer the question: How does air carry heat throughout a house? They explore natural and forced convection in carrying heat, as well…
…Figure 2, the link from Greenhouse Gas to Earth is a double-headed arrow, showing that greenhouse gas circulates energy back to Earth, the cause of greenhouse warming. However, greenhouse gases…
…result, your furnace has to work harder to keep other parts of your house warm. Figure 2. No fire. Our Energy2D tool can be used to investigate this because it…
…the CC-BY-NC-SA license. What we mean by non-commercial use Some of our resources are covered by a license that limits them to non-commercial use. Non-commercial use means “not primarily intended…
…the LBD approach are incorporated into the three-year middle school science curriculum called Project-Based Inquiry Science™ (PBIS), used by tens of thousands of students. Janet is founding Editor-in-Chief of the…
…I saw the ways he used his previous experiences. Organizing cases in memory and finding them later when they could help him figure something out seemed to be the crux…
…in task design. Figure 4. Design process for developing assessment tasks for classroom formative use. (Harris, Krajcik, Pellegrino, & McElhaney, 2016*). Used with permission. Conclusion The Next Generation Science Assessment…
Toulouse, France July 9-12, 2019 Conference Website UseR! is the main meeting of the R user and developer community. Lectures and talks cover topics from technical to general statistics of…
…= 95), students used the Thermoscope, the Land of Bump, and the Particle Modeler. In Technology Group 2 (n = 44), they used the Thermoscope, the Land of Bump, and…