…looking to bridge English language arts and mathematics through the use of data, I find myself carrying out this uncharacteristic online search. Together with project partners at EL Education, researchers…
…create a CODAP document, then assign it to your class so that each student gets their own copy. They can explore a data table or graph you’ve shared with them,…
…effect here was also surprising but much more welcomed news. We then looked to teacher feedback to corroborate these findings. When asked about their students’ curiosity about rocks during the…
Orrin Murray is a principal researcher at American Institutes for Research and external evaluator for our TecRocks project. We all come into the world primed to wonder. Curiosity is the…
…and demonstrating computational thinking. Instead of using their trusty agile development tool, Pivotal Tracker, they went old school, writing development stories on Post-it notes and moving them from the “Backlog”…
…careers. Students Write Their Own Data Stories with Story Builder With pie charts and all manner of graphs, news stories come to us filled with data. As twenty-first century citizens,…
…historical and current events, she wants students to understand real-world data, especially through conversations around the importance of media literacy and “fake news.” Her goal is to help students navigate…
…representation (Figure 1). While this representation is compact, research shows that the hierarchical relationships between cases are not clear to every user. We hope to provide additional representations to make…
…different type of rock. Press Start to run the model. Watch as the plates on either side of the divergent boundary begin to move away from each other. Figure 1….
…subduction zones and along continental collisions; and research sedimentary rock formation along passive continental margins (places away from tectonic boundaries). (See the “Rocks & Tectonics Module Overview” sidebar on page…