TERC Announces New Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jaclyn Parks617.873.9812jaclyn_parks@terc.edu TERC Announces New Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer Cambridge, MA — TERC is pleased to announce Dr. Stephen D. Alkins, Jr. as its new Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer (DEIO). This recently created position reflects TERC’s deep commitment to engaging diverse communities and cultivating opportunity and equity within science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education. As the new DEIO, Dr. Alkins will help TERC attract and retain a diverse workforce, » Read more
New Signing Science Apps
Six separate signing glossaries, delivered as apps for use with handhelds, are now available free from the App Store. They can be used with iPhones, iPads, and iPods and are designed to provide visitors who are deaf or hard of hearing access to STEM vocabulary during visits to to aquariums, botanical gardens, natural history museums, nature centers, science museums, and zoos. For more information, go to https://signsci.terc.edu/glossary/index.html. » Read more
New Storytelling Math Book
A playful story that models engaging conversations between parent and child, Clean Up, Up, Up! includes a note by early childhood education expert Susan C. Levine that shows parents and caregivers how everyday activities offer rich opportunities to teach early spatial math concepts. This material is based upon work supported in part by TERC under a grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation. More about the project. Clean Up, Up, Up! / ¡Arriba, arriba, » Read more
Families Needed to Test Signing Glossary
Visit a Boston Area Museum or Botanical Garden This Summer! We are looking for families with at least one member who is deaf or hard of hearing and uses ASL for communication to help us test a signing glossary during a visit to a science museum, natural history museum, and/or botanical garden. The glossary is being developed with funding from NSF. Admission costs will be covered. We will arrange a time for the visit that is convenient for you. » Read more
Hands On! Spring/Summer 2018
We are happy to release the latest version of Hands On! TERC’s commitment to and passion for social justice in education resonates throughout the Spring/Summer 2018 issue. Enjoy reading these articles and share them with your colleagues and network. Download Hands On! Spring/Summer 2018 Last fall the TERC Scholar’s Program, an internship program led by Dr. Mia Ong, received its first cohort of interns, currently enrolled at Wheelock College. You’ll hear directly from these young learners as they share about their immersion in STEM research and experimentation alongside TERC project teams, » Read more
TERC Hosts the 2018 STEM for All Video Showcase
TERC Hosts the 2018 STEM for AllVideo Showcase, May 14th– 21st funded by the National Science Foundation Now in its 4th year, the STEM for All Video Showcase will feature three-minute video presentations and online discussions from 215 federally-funded innovative projects aimed at improving science, mathematics, engineering, technology and computer science learning. All are welcome to participate by viewing videos of interest, engaging in online conversations, and voting for the Public Choice award. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Cambridge, » Read more
TERC Workshops at Cambridge Science Festival 2018
STEAMworks@TERC2067 Massachusetts Ave1st FloorCambridge, MA 02140 Story Time for Babies & Toddlers / Cuentacuentos bilingüe para bebés y niños pequeños April 17 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am Free Ages 0-3 with caregiver Come for an English/Spanish story time and get a free math storybook for babies. We’ll read picture books that include the math we do when we’re playing and having fun! Then, we’ll explore math as we play. Vengan a disfrutar de un cuentacuentos en inglés y en español y consigan un libro de cuentos de matemáticas para bebés. » Read more
Building Systems from Scratch: an Exploratory Study of Students Learning About Climate Change
Gillian Puttick and Eli Tucker-Raymond2018. Journal of Science Education and Technology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10956-017-9725-x Abstract Science and computational practices such as modeling and abstraction are critical to understanding the complex systems that are integral to climate science. Given the demonstrated affordances of game design in supporting such practices, we implemented a free 4-day intensive workshop for middle school girls that focused on using the visual programming environment, Scratch, to design games to teach others about climate change. The experience was carefully constructed so that girls of widely differing levels of experience were able to engage in a cycle of game design. » Read more
A Girl Scout Program Focused on Energy Conservation
A Design Based Research Study Gillian Puttick, Debra Bernstein, and Teon Edwards—2018. Educational Designer, 3(10). Abstract This paper describes the retrospective analysis of a sequence of design decisions made while iteratively developing a science program for eight- to fourteen-year-old Girl Scouts. The program focused on energy conservation and climate change. To analyze the design, we drew on the original theoretical framework and analyzed design documents to clearly articulate a series of previously implicit design conjectures. » Read more