…dying, reproducing, and gradually adapting to their environment. Figure 3. A StarLogo model of natural selection and evolution. The resulting simulation developed in Dynamicland, however, is something new – it…
…help teachers understand where individual students, or the entire class, are having trouble? What action, if any, do teachers take based on the concept graphs? Figure 3. Display of individual…
…data did students collect and how did they use it? Leave a comment here, or tweet @concorddotorg For more information: Water SCIENCE Teaching Environmental Sustainability: Model My Watershed USGS: Water…
…to simulate the balloon’s ascent? Embed the link to a model (use the model’s Share feature!) in a shared Google Doc along with a question or two for review, enrichment,…
…“Modeling as a core component of structuring data” based on an upcoming article (Konold, Finzer, & Kreetong, in press), which describes research on student understanding of and ability to organize…
…the genetics, cell biology, anthropology, and biogeography of this system. The human lactase protein, above, is made from the lactase gene, a 55,000 basepair segment of the second chromosome. The…
…two time series, say, A and B? This is because there is a difference between “A relative to B” and “B relative to A.” Imagine that you print the series…
…school students, also allows students to manipulate genomes, but the DNA in Geniventure is virtual and the species is a mythical creature called a “drake,” the model species for dragons….
…the book “Simulation and Learning: A Model-Centered Approach” by Dr. Franco Landriscina, an experimental psychologist in Italy, is a masterpiece that I must have on my desk and chew over…
…phenomena include climate change, weather, ecosystems, evolution, and epidemics. Complex systems are modeled in three distinctive ways: (1) structure-function- behavior to create a system that carries out specific functions, (2)…