…Science Curricula Trudi Lord, Hee-Sun Lee, Chris Lore, Amy Pallant 8:00 – 9:30 AM PDT (11:00 – 12:30 PM EDT), Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Floor: North Tower, Ground Level,…
…eruption on plants, buildings, and streets in Nomuka, Tonga. Several millimeters of tephra completely covered crops, put stress on rooftops, and created hazardous air quality throughout the islands in the…
…The Thermonator, on the other hand, requires knowledge of the separate properties. Children must figure out how to combine speed, attraction, elasticity, and gravity to create specific states of matter….
…Data Science Boosting Data Science Teaching and Learning in STEM, a partnership between WestEd, the Concord Consortium, and Heller Research Associates, is researching the knowledge and skills middle school teachers…
…(CODAP) to analyze the results and identify prominent health concerns. The results indicated five primary community health issues, including asthma, depression, diabetes, stress, lead in the environment, as well as…
…do things with data—explore, visualize, find patterns, identify problems, investigate sources, think about the ethical use of data, and more. These are the hallmarks of data fluency. The Concord Consortium…
…were commonplace. Today, technology has changed everything. Well, almost everything. Sure, technology permeates our schools, but that fact is deceptive. It’s the things technology has not changed about education that…
…develop resources for students’ learning. Principal Investigator Kirsten Daehler, director of science and engineering at WestEd and the founder and director of Making Sense of SCIENCE, has been focusing on…
…Throughout the five-activity module, students use the Wildfire Explorer model to investigate the effects of terrain, vegetation, wind, and drought on wildfire spread and intensity. Connections to real-world wildfires are…
…subsided. Between May 1 and 13, 2021, he worked alongside local scientists from the Seismic Research Centre of the University of West Indies to collect tephra fall samples, map the…