…generate questions about the data, and evaluate whether the students’ questions are on target. I think what makes SmartGraphs so powerful is that kids can interact with the graph and…
…uses multi-level simulations, developed by the Concord Consortium, and a curriculum based on Michigan State University’s Evo-Ed evolution education project, to examine a real-world case study of the deer mouse….
…efforts to remove it? Questions like these exist in the province of systems thinking, and in SageModeler represent a classic example of how dynamic modeling can help explore answers to…
…explicit claim-evidence-reasoning questions. Throughout the Hurricane Module, students are asked to run investigations with models and real-world data. Students now write arguments in the CER format, and explain their uncertainty…
Philadelphia, PA April 11-14, 2024 Conference Website The American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting is the world’s largest gathering of education researchers and a showcase for groundbreaking, innovative studies in…
…prepared to shift our ideas. In short: Test. Iterate. Repeat. So we held our first focus group with several Rhode Island teachers who have been loyal users of Molecular Workbench….
…an automated score and feedback in real time with HASBot. Eighteen teachers from 11 states implemented the two modules. Our findings show that students wrote significantly better scientific arguments after…
…and solve problems in real-world thermal systems. Figure 2. Energy2D simulations show convection between a hot plate at the top and a cold plate at the bottom. With a low…
Breeding virtual dragons is all in a day’s work in biology classrooms using Geniverse, our free, web-based genetics software. Although Geniverse is a game-like environment, it’s far more than child’s…
…components come alive when wirelessly synced to sensors, whose numerical data are displayed on the screen in real time as it’s recorded. An eco-column activity includes sensors plugged into a…