…warm slowly or warm an adjacent object. Gradually, they understand that heat requires a process that goes from warm to hot, and takes time. They then understand that it is…
…took organic chemistry and an Intro to Geology course. I fell in love with the subject immediately. I liked thinking about space and time, which is what geology is all…
…a mobile webapp deployed to GitHub Pages, a simple (and free) static hosting service. Each player’s client pushed data to the others by using Firebase, a real-time database service. This…
…objects (such as position-time and velocity-time graphs). In the other 15 schools, 18 control teachers taught the same topic using the same textbooks, with 42 physical science classes. This study…
…true working devices – machines, robots, toys, automata, kinetic artwork – using paper as the foundational building material. This is a particularly opportune time to explore paper mechatronics as a…
Importance Genetics concepts are notoriously hard to learn and teach. Traditional genetics experiments are difficult to do in schools. To demonstrate real-world genetics in action, teachers must have the time…
…attached to a smartphone that collects thousands of temperature data points each time a picture is taken. The Infrared Street View program provides a web-based platform to view and analyze…
…students can meaningfully crowdsolve energy problems in out-of-school time with the assistance of scientists and engineers. These crowdsourcing projects can potentially turn millions of students into “change makers” to help…
…and statistics. At that time the localization process involved emailing files of English strings to our translation partners and receiving files of translated strings in return, which were then manually…
…in physics at the University of Michigan. In Korea, she had memorized facts and provided answers to predetermined problems, even in college. “The Korean curriculum at that time—that’s the way…