Sharing Research Results and Special Poster Session to Commemorate Robert Tinker at AERA 2018 Blog Post
Several researchers and senior scientists from the Concord Consortium traveled to New York City in April for the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). A record 17,148…
…change. Free e-book, too! 2:00 PM, GWCC, C206 “Liven Up Your Labs with Free 3-D Learning Tools and Resources” Learn science by doing science. Adapt your labs using new tools….
When you live in New England in the winter, you pay attention to the forecast. Large snowstorms can make travel near impossible. Heavy snow and blowing winds can cause coastal…
…a free programming language for statistical computing and graphics, which we’re using in our new National Science Foundation-funded CodeR4MATH project to research the development of students’ computational thinking and mathematical…
Lights, camera, action: A video that introduces the NGSS practice of scientific argumentation Blog Post
…Likert scale uncertainty rating, and uncertainty rationale. In this introductory activity, students learn about the components of a good explanation. Even with this new activity, some students still struggled, so…
…tools, CODAP (Common Online Data Analysis Platform), a free web-based environment for data analysis. Dataflow can be embedded directly into CODAP. The use of sensor technology is still new to…
…course work, they used our Geniverse software to study dragon genetics and develop new genes, mutant alleles, and phenotypes based on investigations of scientific literature. They imagined the genotypic and…
…of creating hierarchical data structures (#9), automated analysis of collaborative problem solving in electronics (#8), and more. 1. New systems modeling tool supports students The NGSS identify systems and system…
…of the creation of a new species—a discovery that Darwin called the “beautiful proof” for natural selection. Johannes Kepler was the first to understand that the planets move in elliptical…
…behind them, and manipulate the resulting proteins as the proteins do the work of producing traits. The first set of protein-based challenges using this new interface revolves around scale color…