…buildings and solar farms around the world and contribute them to the Virtual Solar Grid designed by Charles. His goal, according to the Virtual Solar Grid website, is to “crowdsource…
…where it crystallizes and spreads out to make quick-cooling basaltic rocks.” Another reasoned,“The ocean floor at the East Pacific Ridge is formed from magma because the plates at the Ridge…
…Atlantic Ocean. They use their graph and map data to “discover” the mid-Atlantic Ridge, a line of volcanoes marking a divergent plate boundary. Next, they sample rock types from the…
…immediately. The tour is far from a “real” factory tour (Hershey’s did their last true factory tour in June of 1973), but the highly polished ride is actually pretty cool…
…billion. Globally, CSP power stations will generate 4,705 MW this year. CSP stations do not need to be only large-scale. Small-scale CSP stations (below 1 MW, on-grid or off-grid) may…
…natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects). Our curriculum design uses an “embedded phenomena” framework* in which scientific phenomena are…
…plants, solar thermal plants, photovoltaics and wind turbines. Humans have managed to harness energy in many ways to power their endeavors, but the production of electricity has effects and consequences….
…with students for feasibility and maturation effects. Figure 1. The Land of Bump interactive online story, starring the “Red Hots” and “Cool Blues.” When these characters, represented as red and…
Remote Professional Development: Using a System Modeling Tool for 3D Teaching and Learning Blog Post
…teacher. We wanted our students to explore the Earth’s spheres and to model the anthropogenic effects on the hydrosphere. Like other teachers across the globe, becoming an online instructor practically…
…location to help them understand how this curve relates to effects they observe in the lab. Is digging worth it? What is the value of knowing that observables like the…