The Concord Consortium is happy to announce the following new grants from the National Science Foundation. Mobile Design Studio We’re partnering with the University at Buffalo to enable students in…
Sherry Hsi, New Executive Vice President Sherry Hsi, Executive Vice President As a graduate student at UC Berkeley in 1996, Sherry Hsi accompanied Professor Marcia Linn to a learning technology…
Data science research conference K-12 data science education is a crucial and growing education research field. However, as practitioners move quickly forward, there is little research-based guidance about what learners…
…were commonplace. Today, technology has changed everything. Well, almost everything. Sure, technology permeates our schools, but that fact is deceptive. It’s the things technology has not changed about education that…
Water scientists and environmental conservationists participating in project work. William Anderson William Anderson is an environmental educator and retired High School AP Environmental Science teacher. David Arscott David Arscott is…
…what about the food’s nutritional value or its popularity—stories informed by data? The Writing Data Stories project developed curriculum to help students unpack stories about everyday issues like food told…
…of the energy within their system. These stories provide alternate representations to scaffold student understanding and additional artifacts for formative assessment of student learning. Figure 1. The Web-based Inquiry Science…
…Explore the relationships between properties of molecules, temperature, and movement of particles. Breaking a Molecular Bond (conceptual version) Adjust the initial velocity of a third atom as it hits two…
…centuries and millennia into seconds to unlock evolution’s gradual mysteries or manipulate the unseeable world of genes and DNA (Figure 2). Probeware. Probes and sensors such as motion detectors and…
Tucked away all over the world are seed banks, places that store seeds to preserve and protect them: Colorado, Norway, Syria, even Framingham, Massachusetts, where a standard chest freezer stores…