…to a town near the volcano. Pilot Implementation Since my school district had opted for only asynchronous online learning during the COVID-19 crisis, I couldn’t require students to be online…
…incorporate online learning content with in-person teaching in the classroom. We found that many online learning modules included text and videos to convey the material and match objectives. While helpful…
…text as data. College-aged students were asked to identify features useful for sorting headlines into clickbait and news. The findings? Text provides a compelling example of unstructured data that can…
What caused the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)? About 56 million years ago, Earth’s temperature was a lot warmer than it is today–as much as 21°F higher than today (see the…
…Matter project believes they can, with the help of playful, animated stories and an online app that is now available in the App Store. Sensing Science is being piloted in…
Mashable.com included the Concord Consortium’s free, open source software on it’s in its December 16th list of favorite online resources for science teachers. View the full list on Mashable.com…
…2011, a plan of building a massive solar updraft tower in Arizona was announced (for more information, see this CNN report: Can hot air be the free fuel of the…
The American West is burning. Wildfires rage, firefighters battle to contain fires, families are forced to evacuate their homes, and smoke chokes neighborhoods hundreds of miles away. Multiple years of…
…misconstruing the nature of data for learners, traditional school science laboratory investigations overly constrain students’ agency in data production. Environmental science Environmental issues made the headlines this year from natural…
We’re thrilled to present three videos in the National Science Foundation STEM for All Video Showcase from May 14 to 21! We invite you to view the videos and join…