DRK-12 Research and Products

Examining the Enactment of Web GIS on Students' Geospatial Thinking and Reasoning and Tectonics Understandings
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) STEM Resource List
Tool | This list provides the names and locations of HBCUs, along with links to STEM-related programs within these institutions.
Informal science institutions and learning to teach: An examination of identity, agency, and affordances
Publication | This article describes research from a clinical experience in a museum where teacher candidates engaged visitors in learning dialogs around objects on a moveable cart in an exhibit. We describe how working in informal settings and learning to…
Robotics in the early childhood classroom: learning outcomes from an 8-week robotics curriculum in pre-kindergarten through second grade
A Handbook and Tool for Uncovering Children’s Conceptions of Fractions
Tool | Understand students’ fraction concepts through interview tasks. Includes tasks and guide to record student thinking.
In Step with the New Science Standards
Publication | The Next Generation Science Standards can transform how teaching and learning unfold in the classroom. Here's what they look like —and how you can get started.
Envisioning the Role of the Mathematics Teacher
Instrumental development of teachers’ reasoning in dynamic geometry
Publication | To contribute to understanding how teachers can develop geometrical understanding, we report on the discursive development of teachers’ geometrical reasoning through instrument appropriation while collaborating in an online dynamic geometry…
Swimming Upstream in a Torrent of Assessment
Hispanic Association Colleges and Universities (HACU) STEM Resource List
Tool | This list provides the names and locations of HACUs, along with links to STEM-related programs within these institutions.
Understanding the Difficulties African-American Middle School Girls Face While Enacting Computational Algorithmic Thinking in the Context of Game Design
Publication | This article introduces CAT as explored through the Supporting Computational Algorithmic Thinking (SCAT) project, an ongoing longitudinal between-subjects research project and enrichment program that guides African-American middle school girls (…
Science for All: A new breed of schools is closing achievement gaps among students and may hold the key to a revitalized 21st-century workforce
A balancing act in third space: Graduate-level earth science in an urban teacher-residency program
Publication | This article describes a museum-based urban teacher-residency (UTR) program's approach to building subject-specific content knowledge and research experience in Earth Science teacher candidates.
Case Studies
Publication | Case Studies from the FAACT project.
Promoting productive mathematical discourse: Tasks in collaborative digital environments
Publication | Tasks can be vehicles for productive mathematical discussions. How to support such discourse in collaborative digital environments is the focus of our theorization and empirical examination of task design that emerges from a larger research…
Tribal Colleges and Universities STEM Resource List
Tool | This list provides the names and locations of Tribal Colleges and Universities, along with links to STEM-related programs within these institutions.
The Learning Portal: Hundreds of Free Digital Activities Using Models and Probes
Imagining a Future in 4k: How Professional Identity Shapes Notions of Mathematics
Integrating Computing Across the Curriculum: The Impact of Internal Barriers and Training Intensity on Computer Integration in the Elementary School Classroom
Publication | This study examines the relationship between internal barriers, professional development, and computer integration outcomes among a sample of fourth- and fifth-grade teachers in an urban, low-income school district in the Southeastern United…
Turning Transfer Inside Out: The Affordances of Virtual Worlds and Mobile Devices in Real World Contexts for Teaching About Causality Across Time and Distance in Ecosystems
Core Pedagogy: Individual Uncertainty, Shared Practice, Formative Ethos
Using Web GIS to promote geospatial thinking and reasoning skills
Publication | This book examines visual data use with students (PK-16) as well as in pre-service in- service science teacher preparation. Each chapter includes discussion about the current state of the art with respect to science classroom application and…
Exploring Ecosystems from the Inside: How Immersive Multi-user Virtual Environments Can Support Development of Epistemologically Grounded Modeling Practices in Ecosystem Science Instruction
Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) 16-1
Tool | The Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) 16-1 is comprised of documents relating to the Foundation's proposal and award process. It consists of two parts: the NSF Grant Proposal Guide (GPG)and the NSF Award and Administration…
A Novel Way to Teach Kids About Engineering
Publication | This project uses plots from books by Roald Dahl, Judy Blume, and others to teach STEM concepts.