…next month. The app will integrate smartphone-based infrared imaging (e.g., FLIR ONE) and Google Map, along with built-in sensors of the smartphone such as the GPS sensor and the accelerometer,…
…graduate levels, with data science institutes, departments, and courses materializing everywhere. However, K-12 education is another matter entirely. Despite the fact that tomorrow’s data scientist is today’s fourth-grader, experiences with…
…Upper Peninsula to Okemos, Michigan, and opened a children’s bookstore, where “it was nice to see kids get excited about learning.” Two years later, after the bookstore closed, she earned…
…Students and Teachers (RI-ITEST) project, teachers do not have the ability to change the activities, which were developed to support an atomic-level understanding of physics, chemistry, and biology. However, teachers…
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…(nearly) water (Figure 1). I hear you saying, what is the big deal of it? You have probably done that several times in your life, for whatever reasons. If you…
Allele, gene, heterozygous, phenotype, polygenic trait, recessive, dominant . . . The list of terms—and facts that go with them—goes on and on. Much of traditional biology has been taught…
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The primary way students and teachers interact in the classroom is through talking. A teacher poses a question, a student answers, followed by discussion, or argument. Back and forth, words…
…computer at the front of the class. To facilitate inquiry in a whole class mode, try these strategies: Brainstorm. Start with questions that allow every student to contribute (e.g., ask…
Here’s a riddle: Is there something that you cannot see, touch, smell, taste, or hear? The answer: Lots! For example, infrared light, blood pressure, CO2 , electric and magnetic fields,…