…Staudt (cstaudt@concord.org) directs the Sensing Science project. Jamie Broadhead (jamie.broadhead@yahoo.com) is Head of Product Development at Videatives, Inc. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation…
…tectonic plates that make up the outer layer of Earth. While scientists can speculate about plate motion, the geodynamics responsible for a wide variety of landforms and events is complex…
…measure student progress toward achieving proficiency in any standard, an assessment task must include all three dimensions. One of the major challenges in NGSS-aligned assessment design is creating tasks that…
The Next Generation Science Standards promote learning science by doing science. Our new InquirySpace II project guides students in independent investigation by providing curricular and pedagogical scaffolds to support the…
…to be awed. The vastness of the solution space of a complex design problem is far beyond what language can describe. To comprehend its magnitude, consider these two facts: 1)…
…each following simple sets of rules, have long helped both learners and professionals visualize important aspects of complex phenomena. Technologies such as MIT’s StarLogo—with its intuitive block programming approach—make it…
…February 15-17, 2017, at the beautiful Brower Center in Berkeley, California. The Concord Consortium’s Common Online Data Analysis Platform (CODAP) project will be featured. Funding from the National Science Foundation…
…with the eMate. Our TEEMSS [Technology Enhanced Elementary and Middle School Science] project got all the major sensor vendors together in one room. We showed significant learning gains with probes,…
Three years ago, Leap Motion, Inc. released a small USB device that had the potential to offer a completely new way for people to interact with computers. Using a combination…
…a complex and engaging problem in a virtual world. What influences their learning and memories? By comparing what they remember to what they need to remember to make inferences in…