Future park leaders and interpreters can benefit from the groundwork that the five iSWOOP parks laid. This report, based on four evaluation memos by Char, includes dozens of findings, quotes, and recommendations from park leaders, interpreters, scientists, and visitors.
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MPACT provides opportunities for students to engage in computational thinking, spatial reasoning, and mathematical concepts through design and hands-on making projects.
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This commentary provides an introduction to some major themes of that research, in order to provide common ground for conversations between learning science researchers and those who have been studying how students learn to reason with data.
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Adult learners come to our classes at all different
levels, with misconceptions, gaps in some areas
but strengths in others. There is no class that is
truly homogeneous, especially if the class is based
on a one-time multiple-choice test.
TERC announces the launch of the STEM Teacher Leadership Network, funded by the National Science Foundation. They invite teacher leaders, researchers and administrators to join this quickly growing online community to effect change in STEM teaching and learning.
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As TERC continues to grow, we want our brand to reflect what we believe in and why we exist. We’re excited to share these brand updates and explain why we made them.
You’ve probably noticed that TERC’s website and materials have a new look. We’ve recently updated our logo, typeface, tagline, and imagery. We’re still the same TERC you know and love, but with an updated brand that reflects our belief in the power of STEM education to move the world forward. » Read more
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In this groundbreaking report, TEAM-UP has uncovered long-term systemic issues within the physics and astronomy communities that contribute to the underrepresentation of African Americans in these fields and makes important, actionable recommendations for community wide efforts to reverse this trend. » Read more
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BY SCOTT PATTISON, SMIRLA RAMOS-MONTAÑEZ, GINA SVAROVSKY, CYNTHIA SMITH, VERÓNIKA NÚÑEZ, ANNIE DOUGLASS
Supporting engineering interest development in early childhood for low-income families. In the United States, there are large and persistent disparities across communities in the available opportunities for children and their families to access quality STEM learning experiences.
BY MARLENE KLIMAN
Picture books as a vehicle for expanding views of math and who can do it. The Storytelling Math project is working to change the landscape of math picture books. With our partner Charlesbridge Publishing, we are producing a dozen English and Spanish books.
BY FOLASHADE CROMWELL SOLOMON, TRACEY WRIGHT, MARIAH STEELE, AND DIONNE CHAMPION
While a number of scholars suggest that dance represents an important type of embodied cognition, the notion of dance as a site for learning is under-explored. Embodied Physics constructed a physics course for high school students from two Boston-based dance schools.