Spring 2009 @Concord Newsletter

Contents

• Secondary Students Break Into Genetics Research
  Students crack the DNA code for mice and dragons.
• Perspective: Preparing Student Scientists for Tomorrow
  As sciences merge and create new fields, students need overarching ideas to connect them all. Technology can help.
• Teaching Evolution with Models
  Fourth grade students are challenged to evolve a plant population using an online model to alter the environment.
• Monday's Lesson: Teaching About Molecules with Multiple Representations
  Modeling software allows students to manipulate different representations of complex molecules.
• Digital Resources Poised to Reshape Science Learning
  Supported by student use data, we are developing elementary science materials that fully integrate Universal Design for Learning features.
• Constructive Chemistry: A Case Study of Gas Laws
  Teachers embrace a constructionist pedagogy and encourage their students to create simulations with Molecular Workbench.
• Du Châtelet Rediscovered
  An Enlightenment scientist's contributions are remembered in two new books and a play.
• News at Concord Consortium
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Editor: Chad Dorsey

Managing Editor: Cynthia McIntyre

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@Concord is published two times a year by The Concord Consortium, a nonprofit educational research and development organization dedicated to educational innovation through creative technologies.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under several grants (DUE-0802532, ESI-0628242, ESI-0737649, DRL- 0822213, DRL-0733264, DUE-0903243). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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