SmartGraphs Contest!
About: SmartGraphs is free, open source software that helps students understand graphs and concepts represented in graphs (e.g., slope, velocity, half-life, global warming).
Southern African Association for Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education; Cape Town, South Africa
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DR K-12 Presenters:
- Malcolm Butler, University of Central Florida and John Settlage, University of Connecticut (Project: School Structure and Science Success: Organization and Leadership Influences On Student Achievement (Collaborative Research: Butler))
Front-Page Science: Engaging Teens in Science Literacy
“The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force issued new guidelines for mammograms in 2009. What does this mean for someone with a family history of breast cancer? Congress periodically votes on a piece of legislation called the Farm Bill. What does its current iteration mean for the safety of supermarket eggs? Understanding how the latest science affects real people—patients, consumers, voters, and taxpayers—is at the heart of science literacy.”
—From Chapter 1 of Front-Page Science
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2012
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Like citizen journalists, your students can get to the heart of science literacy—and challenging questions like these—with the “learn by doing” methodology in this innovative book. Front-Page Science uses science journalism techniques to help students become better consumers of, and contributors to, a scientifically literate community.
PARCC Updates
PARCC is seeking comment from the public on two draft policies related to its next generation assessment system:
UCEA Annual Meeting
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AEFP Annual Meeting
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Fourth Annual Conference of the Institute of Education Science (IES)
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Fourth Annual Conference of the Institute of Education Science (IES)
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The Third Annual Meeting of the Mentoring Institute
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Exploring the Unknown
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2012
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This article describes The Concord Consortium's High-Adventure Science Project, which brings frontier science into the classroom, allowing students to explore questions in Earth and space science that scientists are currently investigating.