…additional questions, experiment, and start the cycle again. When teachers report their students’ “aha” moments, Chris knows that he’s been able to make complicated concepts accessible. Chris had his own…
Explore how natural convection might look in a whole house, with or without a ceiling. Consider the following questions based on your experience of rooms you have been in. Does…
…I loved it. I had a similar experience with chemistry and statistics. I kept being drawn back to the molecular level where I could get answers to my questions about…
Concord Consortium Research Results Shed Light on Evolution Learning and Scientific Argumentation Blog Post
…Consortium researchers from the High-Adventure Science project described how the project engages secondary students in understanding how scientists explore unanswered research questions in Earth and Space Science. At NARST, the…
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…See Getting Started with CODAP Plugins for step-by-step instructions. Contact us with questions on the CODAP Help Forum. Bill Finzer (wfinzer@concord.org) is a senior scientist. This material is based upon…
…UDL technologies and career-oriented activities in a diversity of middle school science classrooms in California, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Research on student outcomes is guided by the following questions: How does…
I started thinking about how to more easily specify some of the deeply nested structures we need during testing. First we already have a step for doing this. An example…
…come to science class with lots of questions. Why do quakes always seem to happen in the same locations? Are we at risk for an earthquake? Our Seismic Explorer data…
…relied on eliciting, analyzing, and interpreting students’ constructed responses to assessment questions. New types of data may engender new opportunities for improving the validity and reliability of educational measurements. In…