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Supporting Teacher Customizations of an Integrated Science, Engineering, and Computational Thinking Curriculum Unit (Collaborative Research: Chiu)
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National frameworks for science education in the United States advocate for bringing science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and computer science (STEM+CS) disciplines together in K-12 classrooms.…
Supporting Teacher Customizations of an Integrated Science, Engineering, and Computational Thinking Curriculum Unit (Collaborative Research: Basu)
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National frameworks for science education in the United States advocate for bringing science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and computer science (STEM+CS) disciplines together in K-12 classrooms.…
Supporting Teacher Customizations of an Integrated Science, Engineering, and Computational Thinking Curriculum Unit (Collaborative Research: Biswas)
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National frameworks for science education in the United States advocate for bringing science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and computer science (STEM+CS) disciplines together in K-12 classrooms.…
Promoting Equity Through Localization and High-Quality Instructional Materials: Bringing Together Practitioners, Researchers, and Designers
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This project will support a conference series, including an in-person gathering and virtual follow-up meetings, that will bring together teachers, researchers, education leaders, and instructional material…
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Science education integrates the study of and practices from the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). At the fundamental level, the pedagogy involves teaching and learning that emphasizes the use of…
Youth Learning Science and Engineering While Developing Community-based Agency Through Resourceful Engagement in STEM (Collaborative Research: Hunter)
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This project will examine middle school students’ learning of earth and physical sciences and their functional understanding of engineering design as they engage in newly developed environmental justice-oriented…
Youth Learning Science and Engineering While Developing Community-based Agency Through Resourceful Engagement in STEM (Collaborative Research: Bryan)
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This project will examine middle school students’ learning of earth and physical sciences and their functional understanding of engineering design as they engage in newly developed environmental justice-oriented…
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As the nation tackles the challenges of energy transition, K-12 education must prepare a future STEM workforce that can not only apply STEM skills but also address reasoning through complex sociotechnical…
Investigation of Students' Learning, Interest, and Career Aspirations in an Integrated Science and Artificial Intelligence Learning Environment (i-SAIL)
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The United States faces the critical need to prepare students and the future workforce for advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI). This project will develop curriculum that will engage middle-school students…
Developing Learning Trajectories Supporting Middle School Student Understanding of Artificial Intelligence Concepts
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With recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI), the United States needs to develop a diverse workforce with strong computational skills and the knowledge and capability to work with AI. Recent studies have…
Learning How to Help Middle Grades Science Teachers Integrate Data Exploration and Sensemaking in the Classroom (Collaborative Research: Griffith)
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Data literacy is the ability to ask questions, analyze, interpret, and draw conclusions from data. As the world and the workplace become more data-driven, students need to have stronger data literacy across…
Building Teacher Capacity for Teaching Across Science Disciplines Using "Smart" Greenhouses (Collaborative Research: Kermish-Allen)
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Transdisciplinary science integrates knowledge across STEM disciplines to research complex challenges such as climate science, genetic engineering, or ecology. In this project, teachers and students will design…
Building Teacher Capacity for Teaching Across Science Disciplines Using "Smart" Greenhouses (Collaborative Research: Barnett)
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Transdisciplinary science integrates knowledge across STEM disciplines to research complex challenges such as climate science, genetic engineering, or ecology. In this project, teachers and students will design…
Building Teacher Capacity for Teaching Across Science Disciplines Using "Smart" Greenhouses (Collaborative Research: Zha)
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Transdisciplinary science integrates knowledge across STEM disciplines to research complex challenges such as climate science, genetic engineering, or ecology. In this project, teachers and students will design…
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The rapid onset of AI, and generative AI tools such as LLMs, amplify the need for AI literacies, including concepts, practices and ethics, for K-12 schools. Some AI literacy resources, such as AI4K12 and AI4ALL…
Design and Development of Integer Games to Reduce Barriers to Algebra (Collaborative Research: Bofferding)
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Elementary school students' prolonged experiences with positive numbers and operations often lead to their overgeneralizations of rules (e.g., adding always makes larger numbers, subtracting always makes smaller…
Design and Development of Integer Games to Reduce Barriers to Algebra (Collaborative Research: Aqazade)
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Elementary school students' prolonged experiences with positive numbers and operations often lead to their overgeneralizations of rules (e.g., adding always makes larger numbers, subtracting always makes smaller…
Design and Development of Integer Games to Reduce Barriers to Algebra (Collaborative Research: Enzinger)
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Elementary school students' prolonged experiences with positive numbers and operations often lead to their overgeneralizations of rules (e.g., adding always makes larger numbers, subtracting always makes smaller…
Piloting High Quality Instructional Materials in Secondary Science to Foster Instructional Improvements
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Tomorrow's domestic STEM workforce demands that students bring the ability to explain real-world phenomena and solve problems collaboratively. In many school districts, a significant gap persists between this…
CAREER: A Pragmatic, Iterative Approach to Advancing Evidence-based Practices for Preparing and Developing K–12 Science Teachers
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This project addresses a crucial need in K-12 science teacher education to respond to local school district needs for high-quality science teaching and the role of teacher education programs to develop programs…
Professional Learning Resources for Customizing Curricula to Support Elementary Students in Using Full Communicative Repertoires for Scientific Sensemaking (Collaborative Research: González-Howard)
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Scientific sensemaking is core to learning and doing science. Oral and written language, visual and numerical representations, physical models, and other forms of communication are vital to scientific…
Professional Learning Resources for Customizing Curricula to Support Elementary Students in Using Full Communicative Repertoires for Scientific Sensemaking (Collaborative Research: McNeill)
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Scientific sensemaking is core to learning and doing science. Oral and written language, visual and numerical representations, physical models, and other forms of communication are vital to scientific…
Advancing Computational Thinking and Microelectronics Education Through Generative AI Within an Engineering Design Framework
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This project will investigate how recent advances in artificial intelligence can support computational thinking development within an innovative biology curriculum in which students design and program a robotic…
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The growing importance of data, data science and artificial intelligence (AI) in education, work, and personal and civic life has increased the need for all U.S. students to develop data literacy, statistical…
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Rapid changes in computing, especially with advances in artificial intelligence, are reshaping the future needs of society and the demands on the STEM workforce. More than ever, computer science (CS) education…