If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to add more data exploration to your lessons this year, we have a week’s worth of activities to get you started. Because…
…information or to volunteer, contact Kate Miller (kmiller@concord.org). New project brings geoscience practices to middle school students Earthquakes can wreak havoc on infrastructure, cause casualties, and disrupt vital services.To identify…
…diseases such as plague and typhus. Ultimately, the WHO parachuted in 14,000 cats in crates to address the outbreak of these two new diseases. This situation serves as a stark…
…or approaches help illuminate the nature of learners’ struggles? How might they support learners in productively analyzing and understanding spatiotemporal data? Publications Dorsey, C. (2024). New data types and new…
…al., 2021) is to situate learning around phenomena that prioritizes students’ communities and cultures, their local environment, and daily experience. While this can be a powerful way to engage students…
Middle school social studies teacher, New York City Rachel Folger laughs when she recounts the time one of the students in her eighth grade social studies class exclaimed, “Whoa, Ms….
…Earth are associated with certain types of tectonic settings. Magma cools to form igneous rocks that can create new land or new ocean crust. Activity 4: Recipes for rock Converging…
…systems, and he set out to develop computer software that could model this. This was the start of a brand new discipline known as system dynamics Forrester’s pioneering work led…
Middle school science teacher, New Brunswick, New Jersey Jessica Sudah is a self-described introvert, but she says, “I found my voice in the classroom. I found myself in the classroom.”…
…the helm again, Mojica, Finzer, Casey, and Hudson are Co-PIs for a new $2.5 million award from NSF to extend this pivotal work to ensure that prospective teachers are comfortable…