…for the evolution of a single phenomenon. The lessons can be used in face-to-face, virtual, and hybrid classrooms. The Deer Mouse Case also includes a teacher edition, a real-time dashboard,…
…they also found time to go snorkeling, bird watching, and swimming. Thomas learned about the Concord Consortium from his wife, a middle school science teacher, after she searched online for…
…that these practices can be learned at the same time as science concepts without inhibiting the learning of either aspect. Second, we learned that students need several supports embedded in…
…penny for anything you do with a virtual house (and you do not have to wait for a year to evaluate the effect of anything you do on its yearly…
…not just have students use professional data analysis packages for learning? A. The first time I showed Fathom to a group of data analysis practitioners I dragged a point on…
Investigate the effect of gravity on objects of various mass during free fall. Predict what the position-time and velocity-time graphs will look like. Compare graphs for light and heavy objects….
…these problems can be nicely visualized in Energy3D so that people can immediately see them. Instant visual feedback in design time may be very useful to a designer (in fact,…
Plate tectonics in secondary school is rarely treated as an investigatory science as it does not lend itself well to laboratory experiments—students cannot wait millions of years for the results…
As a software tester at the Concord Consortium, Evangeline Ireland sleuths for bugs in our projects. She ferrets out the source of known glitches (why does hitting the spacebar repeatedly…
…represented in deep ways while others are represented in shallow ways? What does “learning” look like when it authentically represents multiple perspectives? To better meet teachers’ and students’ needs and…