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.
SEEC offers consultation, external evaluation, and research support for existing STEM education grants and programs and collaborates with proposal writing teams to design studies.
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The Focus on Energy Summer Workshop empowers elementary teachers to incorporate foundational energy ideas accurately and effectively in their own curriculum.
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Annie Sussman is presenting “Questions That Elicit Students’ Mathematical Ideas: Supporting Meaningful Discourse” on Thursday, 10/17/19, 8:00-9:00am in Salt Palace Convention Center, 255B.
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Articles include:
* Head Start on Engineering: Supporting Engineering Interest Development in Early Childhood for Low-income Families
* Storytelling Math: Picture books as a vehicle for expanding views of math and who can do it
* Embodied Learning through Dance and Physics
* TERC’s New Look, Looks Forward
Center For Astrophysics Science Education monthly seminar featured TERC’s Jim Hammerman talking about the IDATA project where they’re developing software to help students who are blind and visually impaired collect astronomical data.
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