…talents to the group and varied perspectives, but with a unified passion for creating high-quality materials for students.” ConnectedBio uses a real case study of deer mice to explain the…
…classroom resources, and students witnessed a real-world reason for studying volcanic eruptions and predicting potential hazards. Volcanic eruptions are more dangerous when they happen in populated areas. The Taal Volcano…
…The InquirySpace project is researching how students can use an integrated set of computer-based tools to undertake sophisticated, open-ended investigations similar to the approach and thinking used by real scientists….
…geoscientists do. Our goal is to help students develop explanations for real-world events with a foundation in plate tectonics using simulations and computer-based tools to observe and manipulate processes that…
…respectively. Despite the complexity in the math and computation, both software present intuitive visualizations and support real-time interactions so that anyone can mess around with them and discover rich scientific…
The National Science Foundation awards grant to study virtual worlds that afford knowledge integration Blog Post
…unexplored ways. If challenges are framed appropriately and their associated figured worlds (real and virtual) and scaffolding are designed to afford it, such education can help learners integrate the content…
…real space and imaginary space) The nanotechnology content areas covered by this approach are discussed. These areas include notoriously difficult subjects such as statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics. A Gay-Berne…
…to create meaningful, realistic designs and learn science and engineering from these authentic experiences — who wants to keep doing those cardboard houses that look nothing like a real house…
…wisdom of motion tracking based on RGB data requires complicated algorithms to process a large amount of video data, making it harder to implement a real-time application. The Kinect adds…
…travels through them may be very instructive and attractive to students. The following pictures show a BPM 2D simulation of a photonic parallel circuit (many real engineering problems can be…