…world of electrons becomes visible and dynamic. In this lesson, we present an activity for teaching transistors, which was created using our Molecular Workbench software. The importance of transistors Transistors…
…the planet. This lesson, created originally for ninth grade students, features two interactive models created with NetLogo, each designed to support student learning through inquiry. Students should be encouraged to…
…entity that often cannot be seen or felt presents a host of complications, and requires new approaches to teaching. One of the best ways to help students understand such a…
…in a particular environment. Figure 1. Students are challenged to figure out which plants grow best in which light level. A healthy plant produces a flower. Unhealthy plants wither before…
…and doing science. The nature of science itself is an inquiry-based enterprise, and research has shown that students learn science best by doing science. All national and state science standards…
…these promising methods. In the coming years, the Concord Consortium will focus on polishing frameworks and bringing the best examples to schools. We acknowledge that existing public experiments with this…
…for projects like the communally spread crisis-mapping software Ushahidi he describes, and also for any other open source software, one of the reasons we’ve long been proponents of open-source ideals…
…projects that each addresses one piece of the puzzle. New strategies Two of our new projects explore new applications of software. The first, “SmartGraphs,” is based on intelligent software that…
…saturated solution. In the saturated solution, there is a salt precipitate at the bottom of the cup. In all measurements, a fast-response temperature sensor was moved up and down in…
Genetics data stores have grown explosively in size and complexity over the past two decades. The amount of public DNA sequence data available has doubled every 14 months for 20…