…they also found time to go snorkeling, bird watching, and swimming. Thomas learned about the Concord Consortium from his wife, a middle school science teacher, after she searched online for…
…ConnectedBio, a joint project with the Concord Consortium designed to teach high school biology as a coherent set of interlinked biological mechanisms. Mouse fur color is just one of many…
…by large amounts of bioinformatics data. Students conduct breeding experiments within a fanciful game-based environment and interact within an online community of fellow student scientists. Enter the narrative world of…
“The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking…
…the process of reasoning about scientific concepts? The notion that human cognition is rooted in the body is not new, and a growing research effort is emerging to test the…
…this was only a beginning. As we said, “We are still learning how to design science, technology, engineering, and mathematics resources that are more socially and culturally relevant, how to…
For baseball fans the double play is one of the most exciting aspects of the sport. Never mind the home run—the batter pointing toward the centerfield flag, the crack of…
Critical questions about pre-college data science education at international statistics conference Blog Post
…data exploration tool, Common Online Data Analysis Platform (CODAP), noted, “We could see that if data science turned into a checklist of skills, something important would be lost. On the…
How do dragons inherit wings and horns? What role do proteins play in dragons with translucent white scales? During a weeklong summer “camp” in Maynard, Massachusetts, designed for middle school…
Our Common Online Data Analysis Platform (CODAP) offers easy-to-use web-based software that makes it possible for students in grades 6 through college to visualize, analyze, and ultimately learn from data….