…sort leaves and macroinvertebrates from their selected watershed environment online. Even though the online lab simulations were not as exciting as collecting water samples and performing chemistry tests in person,…
…Students’ Approaches Nathan Kimball (The Concord Consortium), Robb Lindgren (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) 1:00pm – 2:30pm, Maryland Salon E Our project investigates how body movement—gestures of the hands, in particular—supports…
…University, the University of Illinois and SRI is researching and documenting a process for creating NGSS assessments and developing a set of exemplar assessments, targeting middle school physical science classrooms….
…pretty astounding. Take this other sentence from Fred Espenak’s 2017 page: Another indispensable guide for chasers of the 2017 solar eclipse. The weather prospects from Missouri to Illinois are…
…And David’s grandmother, Ruth, taught in one-room schoolhouses in Illinois. “Their heartfelt passions rubbed off on us in the most positive and influential ways possible,” he says. “Now, several of…
…research known as embodied cognition seeks to uncover the relationship between movement of the body and learning. The GRASP project at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the Concord Consortium…
Precipitating Change uses computational thinking skills to predict weather in an Alaska classroom Blog Post
…University, and University of Illinois at Chicago, the Concord Consortium has developed locally focused curricula for the Northeast U.S. and for Alaska. The Alaska materials will be tested this year…
…the Building Elementary Teachers’ Capacity team at the University of Illinois at Chicago, UChicago STEM Education, the University of Kansas Achievement and Assessment Institute, and the Concord Consortium has worked…
…Millersville University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago, is researching a place-based curriculum in three Native Alaskan villages with a majority of Indigenous students (ranging from 67-95% of the…
…Science that Integrate the Three Dimensions of the NGSS Brian Gane (University of Illinois at Chicago: Chicago, IL), Joseph Krajcik (CREATE for STEM Institute, Michigan State University: East Lansing, MI),…