Principal Investigator: Brian Drayton and Gilly Puttick
Funders: National Science Foundation
Website:  http://biocomplexity.terc.edu

This project is developing scaffolding materials for use with the TERC-developed Biocomplexity and the Habitable Planet curriculum— composed of innovative, inquiry-based instructional materials to engage high school students in the recent science of “coupled natural and human” (CNH) systems. More »

Principal Investigator: Judy Vesel
Funders: National Science Foundation
Website: http://signsci.test.terc.edu

TERC and the Museum of Science, Boston (MoS), are studying the integration—into MoS’s Take a Closer Look and Science in the Park exhibits—of iPod Touch versions of the Signing Science Pictionary (SSP), Signing Science Dictionary (SSD), and the Signing Math Dictionary (SMD). Developed by TERC and Vcom3D (innovators of the SigningAvatar® technology that More »

Principal Investigator: Judy Vesel
Funders: U. S. Department of Education
Website: http://signsci.terc.edu/

TERC and Vcom3D are using the SigningAvatar® assistive technology to create an illustrated interactive 3D dictionary of signed mathematics terms for children in grades K-4 who are deaf or hard of hearing. They will evaluate it for usability and feasibility, and add to the Avatar lexicon of signs for More »