This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $849,931 to support a collaborative research project that aims to help middle school teachers customize an integrated science, engineering, and computational thinking curriculum unit. The project will work with 18 teachers and up to 4,800 students to understand how teachers can adapt next-generation STEM+CS curricular materials to their local school and community contexts. Key outcomes...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA #47.076 - STEM Education) provides $1,514,073.00 to The Regents of the University of Colorado to investigate how to support middle grades teachers in integrating data exploration and sensemaking practices into their science instruction. The project develops an instructional framework called "Data Puzzles" that uses real-world climate science data and web-based data analysis tools to help students build data literacy...
This $348,706 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to develop and implement a curricular program for middle-school students in community-based settings. The program will focus on building data visualization skills to help students become critical consumers and interpreters of data. The research goals are to provide empirical evidence of middle school students building data visualization practices through learning technologies and to...
This $293,356 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a collaborative research project to help middle school teachers customize an integrated science, engineering, and computational thinking curriculum unit. The project aims to understand the supports teachers need to adapt computationally-rich, Next Generation Science Standards-aligned curricular materials for their specific classroom and community contexts. Through this...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $695,426 to Terc, Inc. to explore the integration of data science and civic education in middle school social studies classrooms. The project aims to (1) deepen students' data literacy, (2) develop their efficacy in working with civic datasets, and (3) create learning experiences connecting data to local community issues. Through a collaborative co-design process with middle...
This $398,236 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program aims to create a sustainable and adaptable framework for fostering critical thinking and inspiring diverse STEM learners. The project will develop a novel two-course structure, with advanced students studying advanced statistical methods and meeting weekly with introductory students studying persuasive data visualization. This cross-level approach is designed to promote sustained...
This $804,337 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports a four-year research project titled "Teaching for the Anthropocene: Teacher Learning and Practice for Critical Systems Thinking." The project aims to investigate how a teacher professional development program can help middle and high school science teachers implement critical systems thinking to address socio-environmental issues in their curriculum and...
This $634,504 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) program (CFDA 47.076) supports a four-year research initiative titled "Teaching for the Anthropocene: Teacher Learning and Practice for Critical Systems Thinking." The project aims to investigate how a professional development program can help middle and high school science teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area, Southern Massachusetts, and London, UK, develop critical...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program provides $721,534 to the University of Maryland, College Park from September 2022 through August 2025 to develop curricular modules and teacher training materials focused on integrating computer science into linguistically inclusive, transdisciplinary STEM instruction at the elementary school level. Specifically, the award supports a research-practice partnership team in modifying existing lesson plans to include...
This $449,885 project grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Discovery Research PreK-12 (DRK-12) program aims to design, implement, and test climate science and history professional learning materials and experiences for high school teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area. The University of California, Berkeley, as the prime awardee, will work with a team of scientists, historians, and educators to co-develop curricular planning tools and lesson plans to help teachers integrate...